Charlotte Robespierre

See also: Robespierre

Marie Marguerite Charlotte Robespierre , born the February 5th 1760 with Arras, died with Paris the August 3rd 1834, is the girl of François Robespierre and Jacqueline Marguerite Carraut and the sister of the revolutionists Maximilien and Augustin Robespierre.

To died of her mother and when her father disappeared, she was entrusted to her paternal aunts like her young Henriette sister (Maximilien and Augustin Robespierre were entrusted to their maternal grandparents). At the eight years age, it entered, with her sister, like stock exchange in an institution charged to educate the young girls coming from good poor families but. It left this institution at the age of blackjack year and moved in with its fère elder, Maximilien, which had just obtained its license of right to the Louis college the large one (in Paris). They lived together until the beginning of the Revolution. When Maximilien Robespierre was elected appointed State Third and left to Versailles, it lived Arras and lived with her Augustin brother who had just completed his studies.

In 1792, Maximilien Robespierre, which had moved in at the Duplay in 1791, proposed with his/her sister and her brother to join it in the carpenter. The relations between the sister of Incorruptible and the wife of Maurice Duplay were spoiled quickly. Charlotte convainquit her older brother to leave the family of the carpenter and to move in with it in an apartment located street Holy Florentin. Maximilien Robespierre accepted but fell quickly sick. According to the memories of Charlotte, Mrs Duplay would then have intervened and the Incorruptible one regained the housing of Duplay street Saint-Honore.

About the same time, Fouché would have proposed in Charlotte Robespierre to marry it but this project was not concretized. In her memories, Charlotte evokes as reason of their rupture the exactions made by Fouché in the departments where it had been sent.

Charlotte accompanied her Augustin brother when that Ci was sent as a representative of the National Assembly in Toulon and Nice. It is besides at the time of this voyage that it was scrambled completely with her younger brother.

She was brought back to Arras on the request of her older brother. She however returned from her own liking to Paris and went to settle in a friend.

Believing itself threatened after the falls of his/her brother, it changed name and hid elsewhere. Discovered, it was stopped. At the time of her interrogation, guest to say if it were with the current conspiracy, it hastened to declare that it “was unaware of this infernal conspiracy completely” and that “if it had suspected the infamous plot which was woven, it had denounced it rather than to see losing its country”. She was released at the end of a fifteen or so days of imprisonment by the Comité of general security thermidorien.

Once coming out of prison, it went to live in friends, the Mathon citizen and his/her daughter who, as Laponneraye in the foreword of the Memories of Charlotte Robespierre affirms it, loved Charlotte as if it had been her mother.

Starting from 1803, it perceived, not a pension, but a periodic help on decision of Bonaparte which charged it to the flows of the separate accounts of the ministry for the Interior directed by Fouché. Although decreased, this help was maintained by the successive governments.

She died at those which lodged it since Messidor An II, the Mathon citizen then her daughter, to whom she bequeathed some modest pieces of furniture and personal effects: “not of buildings, not of revenues on the State, not of capital”.

Having survived nearly forty six years her two brothers, she baited herself to rebuild afterwards what did not exist any more in the An II. Albert Laponneraye transfigured it as a priestess of the Robespierrisme.

Sources

H. Fleischmann, Charlotte Robespierre and her memories , BN Ln 27-54-333.
G. Pioro & P. Labracherie, “Charlotte Robespierre, ihren Memoiren und ihre Freunde” in Maximilien Robespierre , Berlin, Markov editions, 1958.
Charlotte Robespierre, Memories (Laponneraye edition), Presence of the Revolution, 1987, New World editions, 2006.

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