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Liberty, in Thy Name!
Three Women of the French Revolution: Olympe de Gouges, Manon Roland and Sophie de Grouchy

Ghost writing for the minister.

3/29/2017

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Until a few weeks before she died, Manon Roland didn't want to publish in her own name. But  she did publish either anonymously, or under her husband's name, 'helping' him with his work:

"For twelve years of my life, I worked alongside my husband, as I ate, because the one was as natural to me as the other. If some part of his work was cited, because it was found to be more gracefully written; if some academic trifle such as he liked to send out was accepted by one of the learned societies he was a member of, I was happy for him, and I did not take particular notice whether the piece was one of mine. And often he ended up persuading himself that he had been on a particularly good streak when he'd written this or that passage which in fact came from my pen.  [...]"


When Roland was named minister of the interior, she kept on writing for him. She found it easy as 'she loved her country' and was 'enthusiastic for liberty'. Only once, she tells us, did she allow herself to be amused by her ghostwriting, when she penned a letter from the minister to the Pope, demanding the release of French artists imprisoned in Rome. 

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