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Madame Roland

1754 - 1793

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Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Roland de la Platière (Paris, March 17, 1754 – Paris, November 8, 1793), born Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, and best known under the name Madame Roland was a French revolutionary, salonnière and writer. Her letters and memoirs became famous for recording the state of mind that conditioned the events leading to the revolution. From a young age Roland was interested in philosophy and political theory and studied a brought range of writers and thinkers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Madame Roland has received more than 430,359 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Madame Roland is the 827th most popular writer (down from 692nd in 2019), the 982nd most popular biography from France (down from 775th in 2019) and the 128th most popular French Writer.

Madame Roland was a woman of the French Revolution who was executed for her involvement in the Revolution. She is most famous for her memoirs, which were published posthumously.

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  • 430k

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  • 62.32

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Madame Roland ranks 827 out of 5,755. Before her are Bhāsa, Viktor Shklovsky, Laura de Noves, Frank Wedekind, Ban Gu, and Ibn al-Jawzi. After her are Ian McEwan, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Edgar Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, and Sam Shepard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Madame Roland ranks 8. Before her are Paul I of Russia, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, Seraphim of Sarov, Joseph Proust, and Jacques Pierre Brissot. After her are Frederick I of Württemberg, Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Georg Forster, and William Bligh. Among people deceased in 1793, Madame Roland ranks 13. Before her are Carlo Goldoni, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Yolande de Polastron, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Jacques Pierre Brissot, and Francesco Guardi. After her are Alexander Roslin, Charles Bonnet, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, Antoine Barnave, John Hancock, and Fletcher Christian.

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In France

Among people born in France, Madame Roland ranks 982 out of 6,011. Before her are Francis Phoebus of Navarre (1467), Tetricus I (250), Laura de Noves (1310), Marie Louise Gonzaga (1611), Ernest Chausson (1855), and Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr (1764). After her are Villard de Honnecourt (1200), Alexis Clairaut (1713), Horace Vernet (1789), Alphonse Bertillon (1853), Jacques Cassini (1677), and Pierre Augereau (1757).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Madame Roland ranks 128. Before her are Philippe Ariès (1914), Juliette Récamier (1777), Max Jacob (1876), Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626), Jean Anouilh (1910), and Laura de Noves (1310). After her are Theodore Beza (1519), Annie Ernaux (1940), Antoine Galland (1646), Maurice Denis (1870), Éric Zemmour (1958), and Jean de Joinville (1224).

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