Fatal Friendship?

"History must have a sinister curiosity in ascertaining the first impression made on Madame Roland by the man who, warmed at her hearth, and then conspiring with her, was one day to overthrow the power of his friends, immolate them en masse and send her to the scaffold."

Alphonse de Lamartine on Mdm Roland & Robespierre. History of the Girondists

Art du Jour! The Milkmaid

 Greuze, Jean-Baptiste.  The Milkmaid. Before 1784, oil on canvas. Musée du Louvre.