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Madame Marie (or Manon) Jeanne Philipon Roland de la Platière (1754-93). An influential figure in Paris society at the time of the French Revolution. Her salon was frequented by Brissot, Buzot, Pétion, Robespierre, and others. She was beheaded Nov. 8, 1793.
Francis L. Hawks, ed. Pictorial Cyclopaedia of Biography (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856) 791.
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