After an embarrassing rejection from Henry Fuseli, a painter who was already married, Mary decided to go to France, despite being warned of how dangerous the brewing revolution was. She stayed with other British people (among the group being Helen Maria Williams), and began to take speak with people leading the revolution. She mostly spoke with the more moderate Girondins. 

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