Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze Madame Roland’s Mémoires to bring out the peculiarity of the female viewpoint here adopted. The article starts from Madame Roland’s vocation for private writing, it then focuses on her expository strategies and her contribution to the historical and political spheres, and it finally tackles the more strictly autobiographical part of her work. It is precisely the distinctiveness of the female viewpoint that allows the author to overcome the rigid dichotomy between public and private sphere. The merging together of these two spheres was indeed what allowed women to actively intervene in the political dimension, while disguising their intervention