Manon Phlipon grew up the bookish daughter of a Paris engraver, married the much older inspector of manufactures Jean-Marie Roland, and became the moving spirit of a political salon in the first years of the Revolution. Ida Tarbell follows her from girlhood and country life near Villefranche to the centre of Girondin politics, drawing on letters then unpublished.
A careful, sympathetic portrait by the journalist later famous for her exposé of Standard Oil. Download the free EPUB.