Rosalie Jullien, a citizen close to the Montagnards, is the author of a lengthy correspondence in which she recounts the Revolution. She evokes the very serious crises between the fall of the monarchy and the consequences of Thermidor : the September massacres, the execution of the king, the Girondins- Montagnards rupture, the assassination of Marat, and the imprisonment of her son who was not released from prison until October 1795. Combining national history and private life, this correspondence reveals the complexity of the moment. The reader perceives the erosion of her revolutionary zeal in the face of violence difficult to understand.