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Lädt ... A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland (1929)von Jeanette Eaton
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This is a fictionalized biography of the French Revolutionary patriot and writer Jeanne Manon Roland de la Platiere (1754-1793), who became known simply by Madame Roland. She was the daughter of a Paris engraver who encouraged his daughter's interest in music, painting, and literature. As a young girl, she told to her grand-mother: "I'll call myself daughter of the Seine," and as an adult she often said that the river was part of her soul. As a young woman she became interested in the radical ideas of Jean Jacques Rousseau and the movement for equality. She shared these enthusiasms with her husband, whom she married in 1780. After the outbreak of the Revolution, she formed a salon of followers, who late became known as the Girondists. Under the constitutional monarchy, her husband became minister of the interior, a post he held after the monarchy was overthrown. Madame Roland both directed her husband's career and influenced the important politicians of the period.) Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Published in 1929, A Daughter of the Seine was one of six titles - together with Pran of Albania, The Jumping-Off Place, The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales, Vaino: A Boy of New Finland, and Little Blacknose - to be chosen as a Newbery Honor Book in 1930. An immensely engaging biography of a fascinating historical figure, it was also a Junior Literary Guild selection, and is, in my judgment, probably best suited for older children and young adults. The text is simple enough to be followed by readers who have little familiarity with the period in question - I myself am not as well-versed in the intricacies of the French Revolution, as I no doubt should be - but never "dumbed down" in a way that would be insulting to young readers. I'm very impressed, in fact, that a book on this subject, running to this length (324 pages, including bibliography and index) would be considered juvenile fare. One wonders if modern children would be interested in reading it.
As already mentioned, this is a very sympathetic portrait of Madame Roland, although Eaton does occasionally insert some criticism - as when she mentions Roland's inability to see the "romance" of the royal family's story - and offer some apologia for her lack of foresight, when it came to her judgment of the more dangerous extremists who would one day be the cause of her death. The authorial interjections are fairly minimal however - with a notable exception, in which Eaton makes mention of Americans recently fighting in the Argonne in the "Great War," thereby dating her book - and the narrative reads smoothly. The final section, in which the Rolands find themselves caught in the growing tide of violence that would become "The Terror," is most involving, and simply flies by.
All in all, I enjoyed A Daughter of the Seine, finding it both engaging and informative. I am encouraged by this, as three more of Eaton's biographies - Leader by Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot (1938), Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams (1944), and Gandhi: Fighter Without a Sword (1950) - were also chosen as Newbery Honor Books. I will look forward to reading them, in this long Newbery Project of mine! ( )