BOOK IX.
I.
After the dispersion of the Constituent Assembly, the mission of M.and Madame Roland having terminated, they quitted Paris.

This woman, who had just left the centre of faction and business, returned to La Platiere to resume the cares of her rustic household and the pruning of her vines.
But she had quaffed of the intoxicating cup of the Revolution.

The movement in which she had participated for a moment impelled her still, though at a distance.

She carried on a correspondence with Robespierre and Buzot; political and formal with Robespierre, pathetic and tender with Buzot.

Her mind, her soul, her heart, all recalled it.