Jean-Marie Roland, vicomte de la Platière

(1734-1793)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Roland de La Platière, Jean-Marie, 1734-1793 LBT ID: JeRolan1793 VIAF ID: 46800495 LOC ID: n50078912	B/BAP: 1734-02-18 DIED: 1793-11-15
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Minister of the interior under Louis XIV, he became leader of the Girondist faction; he died a suicide upon the news that Madame Rolland was executed during the Reign of Terror.
REFERENCES TO Jean-Marie Roland, vicomte de la Platière: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter II. Found 2: ¶ 135 ¶ 141