Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary FranceThe bestselling author of Maharanis recreates the lives of six remarkable women who, in a time of violent revolution, leapt at the chance to exercise their considerable charm, intelligence and acumen, and make their mark on history. Germaine de Stael was an intellectual and an aristocrat, equally obsessed by politics and love affairs, who is said to have helped write the 1791 Constitution. Her fellow salonnire, Mme Roland, was a bourgeois housewife