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Yet another sorry end from the annals of the Revolution......
At the end of January 1793, three days after the execution of Louis XVI, Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière resigned his post as Minister of the Interior. For four months he managed to lived quietly with his wife in the rue de la Harpe. On 31st May 1793, his arrest was ordered. He immediately slipped out of the house and took refuge with his friend the naturalist Louis-Augustin Bosc in the rue des Prouvaires. Manon Roland, having petitioned energetically on his behalf, was arrested at one o'clock the following morning.
In the forêt de Montmorency
Roland remained hidden with Bosc throughout 1st June. On the 2nd the whole of Paris was in arms, the bells sounded their alarm, patrols were out in the streets. With all eyes focused on the Convention, Roland and Bosc left Paris unchallenged and reached the forêt de Montmorency where Bosc owned a country retreat, the former Priory of Sainte-Radegonde where he would go to botanise.
