Éléonore Duplay

Éléonore Duplay . said " Cornélie" (born in 1768 - died the July 26th 1832)

Girl of Maurice Duplay and Francoise-Éléonore Vaugeois which on their premises accommodated Maximilien de Robespierre of 1791 with its death in 1794.

We know few things about it. It was right and proud (from where its nickname of Cornélie in reference to the mother of Gracques) but seemed inhibited a little in its role of elder. She studied painting and appeared rather gifted but did not ambitionnait to make its trade of it. According to the legend of the Duplay family, Eléonore would have become the mistress of Incorruptible during her stay in its family.

On this subject, several opinions are opposed:

With believing her Elisabeth sister of it, it was " promise" with Maximilien de Robespierre which would have said about it " Virile heart, it could die as it knows aimer".

One sworn in the revolutionary tribunal, Vilate, explains why Eléonore: " passed for its wife and had a kind of empire on lui."

On the contrary, the sister of Robespierre, Charlotte, rejects these assertions. She writes besides in her Memories: " Overpowered businesses and work as it of Robespierre it, was entirely absorbed by its functions of member of Committee of public hello, my older brother could it deal of love and marriage? Y had it places in its heart for similar futilities when its heart was filled entire of the love of the fatherland, when all its feelings, all its thoughts were concentrated in only one feeling, in only one thought, the happiness of the people; when unceasingly aissailli of personal enemies, his life was a perpetual combat? Not, my older brother could not have fun to make Céladon with Eléonore Duplay. One can judge if it were laid out to link itself with the oldest daughter of Mrs. Duplay by a word that I intended it to say to Augustin younger brother of Charlotte and Maximilien: " You should marry Eléonore. - My faith, non." my young person frère." answered;

A deputy in Convention, Merlin of Thionville, pays: " It is false that it had the honor to love the women, on the contrary, it made them the honor of the haïr."

And Jules Michelet in his History of the French revolution increases: " For Robespierre, there was not to think of giving him a maîtresse."

The plans of the house of the Duplay family, published by Victorien Sardou, prove that the Incorruptible one could not join Eléonore in its room without crossing that of his/her parents.

One left it in freedom after Thermidor 9 year II (July 27th 1794). But it voluntarily went to be locked up with Elisabeth (who had married in 1793 one of the collaborator close relations of Robespierre, Philippe Lebas) who had been trailed in prison with his six weeks old baby. " Oh! I will not forget you my life, wrote thereafter Elisabeth Bottom in his Memories, because without you I would have succumbed; but by your courage, you revived my forces and you me taught that I had a great task to fill which I had a son, whom it was necessary to live for lui". It crossed the life in silence, bearing without bending until its last day the crushing weight of a mourning out of all common measurement. It is buried with the cemetery of the Père Lachaise. It accepted all the same until 1832 a revenue of 15000 francs poured by the successive governments.

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