Rosalie Jullien

Born

9 September 1745

Died

28 April 1824

The wife of the Convention deputy Marc-Antoine Jullien and the mother of a young agent of the Committee of Public Safety, Rosalie Jullien was a woman of wide reading who spent the revolutionary years in Paris while her husband was often in the Drôme, and wrote to them almost daily. She gathered her news herself, in the streets, in the public galleries of the Assembly and at the Revolutionary Tribunal, and supplemented it from the newspapers she read voraciously. Some thousand of her letters survive, and they are among the fullest accounts of the Revolution as it was experienced in Paris from day to day. She knew Robespierre and wrote warmly of him until Thermidor, after which she reversed herself entirely to protect her son. She died in 1824.

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