Marie Marguerite Françoise Hébert
Marie Marguerite Françoise Hébert | |
|---|---|
| Born | Marie Goupil 1756 Paris, France |
| Died | 13 April 1794 (aged 37-38) Paris, France |
| Burial place | Errancis Cemetery |
| Occupation | Wife of revolutionary leader |
| Known for | Execution by guillotine during the French Revolution |
| Spouse | Jacques René Hébert |
| Children | Scipion-Virginie Hébert |
Marie Marguerite Françoise Hébert, née Marie Goupil (1756, Paris – 13 April 1794, Paris), was a figure in the French Revolution who died by guillotine during the Reign of Terror.
Biography[edit]
Marie Goupil was born in Paris to Jacques Goupil, a lingerie merchant who died prematurely, and Louise Morel (who died in 1781).[citation needed]
She became a nun in the convent of the Conception (on rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris as a "sister of Providence" on the rue Saint-Honoré, but she left the convent after the suppression of monastic vows. Choosing to pursue new ideas, she became a member of the Fraternal Society of Both Sexes, which was an early example of active participation of women in politics. At one of the group's meetings she met the prominent revolutionary Jacques René Hébert and they married on 7 February 1792.[citation needed]
The couple had a daughter Scipion-Virginie Hébert (7 February 1793 – 13 July 1830), but the infant was orphaned when her father was guillotined on 24 March 1794, and her mother Marie was guillotined on 13 April 1794, only twenty days later along with Lucile Desmoulins, Chaumette and Gobel, and others.[1] The bodies of Marie Hébert, as well as the others guillotined that day, were disposed of in Errancis Cemetery.[citation needed]
Scipion-Virginie Hébert was raised by a printer, Jacques Christophe Marquet. She became undermistress of a boarding school and married a Reformed pastor and had six children. She died at 37 years of age.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "Vente aux enchères de Marie-Marguerite-Françoise Goupil,... | Gazette Drouot". www.gazette-drouot.com. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ^ Nicolle, Paul (1947). "La Fille d'Hébert. Son parrain. — La descendance du Père Duchesne". Annales historiques de la Révolution française. 19 (108): 326–332. ISSN 0003-4436. JSTOR 41925452.