165 - ROLAND, Madame (Jeanne-Marie or Manon Philipon, known as Mme Roland de la Platière) [Paris, 1754 – id., 1793], muse of the Girondins.

ROLAND, Madame (Jeanne-Marie or Manon Philipon, known as Mme Roland de la Platière) [Paris, 1754 – id., 1793], muse of the Girondins. Autograph letter addressed to the abbot, secretary of the Institute of Bologna. Amiens, November 22, 1783; 1½ pages, in-4°. Autograph letter addressed to the abbot, secretary of the Institute of Bologna. In it, she expresses her desire to join the Academy of Bologna: “I had the honor of writing to you, more than five months ago, my special expressions of veneration for the Academy of Bologna, the tribute I paid to it, and my wish to become a member. ” She sent them her works, “but the Academy was on recess until All Saints’ Day, and at that time you would kindly convey my tribute and best wishes to it. ” She explains that she is awaiting a reply from them: “The feelings that prompted my request do not allow me to lose sight of it; besides, in matters of this nature—as with all those in which one takes a keen interest—it is better to know where one stands than to remain in uncertainty. I am currently preparing a substantial work for publication, in which I would have been flattered to include the name of a company that I hold in particularly high regard, whose positive influence in the country I visited with great interest I will always remember.”