Madame Roland

"O Liberté, que de crimes on commet en ton nom!"

"I have been reading Madame Rolands memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious — rather a German type. Her last days before her execution were spent in chronicling petty social snubs or triumphs of many years back. She was a democrat chiefly from envy of the noblesse."