Jean Marie Roland, vicomte de la Plati%C3%A8re
JeanMarie Roland, de la Platire was a French manufacturer in Lyon and became a leader of the Girondist faction in the French Revolution, largely influenced in this direction by his wife, MarieJeanne Manon Roland de la Platiere. He served as a minister of the interior in King Louis XVIs government in 1792.
Roland de la Platire was born and baptized on February 18, 1734 in Thizy, Rhne. He was a studious child, who received a thorough education. At the age ofyears, Roland was offered the choice of becoming either a businessman or a priest. But he declined both offers and took up studying manufacturing, leading him to the city of Lyons. Two years later, a cousin and inspector of manufactures offered Roland a position in Rouen. He gladly accepted the job. Roland then was transferred to Languedoc, where he became an enthusiastic economist but soon became ill from overwork. He was then offered the less stressful job of lead inspector of Picardy which was the third most important manufacturing province in France in 1781.
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