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...llesmoulins. Romme, a mystical republican, infused into her mind the German e pirit of illumination. Youth, love, revenge, and the contact with this furnace...passions, ideas, and pleasures. Connected at first with ihe great innovators of 'fc9, she had passed from their arms into those of rich voluptuaries, who purchased...

...France. Introduced to Mirabeau, she knew through him Sieve's, Joseph Chdnier, Danton, Ronsin, Briseot, and Camille Desmoulins. Romme, a mystical republican,...great innovators of '89, she had passed from their ^rms into those of rich voluptuaries, who purchased her charms dearly. Courtezan of opulence, she became...

...she knew I THEROIGNE DE MERICOURT. 491 through him Sieyes, Joseph Chenier, Danton, Eonsin, Brisfsot, and Camille Desmoulins. Romme, a mystical republican,...the people ; and like her celebrated prototypes of Kgypt or of Rome, she lavished upon liberty the wealth she derived from vice. On the first assemblage...

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...Théroigne. The poet adored her, but the politician tried to remain cool. "Youth, love, revenge", he wrote, "and the contact with this furnace of a revolution,...the intoxication of passions, ideas, and pleasures. . . ." For all the romantic intensity of his own commitment to revolutionary emotion, he didn't quite...