Jeanne marie roland biography of rory gilmore
This challenge is quite simply to read every book that the characters Lorelai and Rory Gilmore (but let's face it, mostly Rory) read or reference on the TV.!
A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Roland, Marie Jeanne
Wife of the celebrated patriot of that name, was born at Paris, in 1754.
Her father, M. Philipon, was an engraver of much talent, her mother was a woman of an uncommonly elevated character. The little Manon, as Madame Roland was called when a child, shewed her peculiarly ardent and enthusiastic temperament very early.
Sometimes, Rory wondered if her mother missed the life she would have had if she hadn't gotten pregnant.
Happily for her, she was surrounded from her youth by those pure and religious influences which, notwithstanding the scepticism of the age, still linger in the humble homes of the bourgeoise. Naturally reserved, though animated and eager, she required constant occupation; she never remembered having learned io read; by the time she was four, all the trouble of her education was over; it was only necessary to keep her well supplied with books.
Flowers were the only thing that could make her voluntarily give up her reading. But her mother, to prepare her for her future duties, often required her to leave he