Claire Lacombe

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Claire Lacombe , born in 1765 with Pamiers is a actress and militant feminist revolutionist and French. One is unaware of the conditions of his death but it is known that it is posterior with 1798.

Its baptismal certificate mentions that it is the legitimate girl of its parents, which means that they were married and thus, that it is not resulting from a medium of actors as opposed to what affirms Lamartine. Before the Revolution, it is actress, not without success, with Marseilles and Lyon. In 1792, it arrives at Paris where it attends the Club of Cordeliers. She obtains a “civic crown” to have taken part in the attack of the palate of the Tuileries with a battalion of Fédérés (August 10th 1792). The next winter, it is close to the group of the Enragés (it is a time the partner of Jean-Theophilus Leclerc which will marry Pauline Leon later) and militates against the unemployment or the monopolization of the richnesses, social concerns which lead it to found with Pauline Leon the Société of the Republican Revolutionists in February 1793.

One knows that Claire Lacombe was beautiful woman, like says it with condescension the mountain Choudieu, deputy of Maine-et-Loire: “Miss Lacombe had of other deserves only one rather beautiful physique. She represented in our public festivals the goddess of freedom. She had, like Miss Théroigne, a great influence in the groups. She did not have any brilliant quality, but its manners were appropriate for the mass of the people. ”

The May 12th 1793, the Republican Revolutionists ask for the right of carry the weapons to fight in the Vendée. Claire Lacombe plays a big role during the events of the May 31st and the June 2nd, taking part in the debates and pushing with the insurrection. In August, she claims by a petition that all the noble ones of the army are relieved and the September 5th, she asks even the purification of the government. This time, the Jacobins are caught some with it and show it imaginary offenses, certainly not very credible but extremely dangerous at the time: to have given asylum to aristocrats for example.

Stopped the September 16th it is slackened the evening even. The October 7th 1793 it is presented to the bar of Convention and refutes the arguments of its adversaries, denouncing with the passage the oppression whose the women are victims, adding even: “Our rights are those of the people, and if us are oppressed, we will be able to oppose resistance to oppression” . The government does not appreciate and, a few days later, Claire Lacombe is implied in a business which causes its loss: women of the Market show the Republican Revolutionists to have forced them to take the red bonnet, dress reserved to the men. Victorious, the women of the Market would have even whipped Claire Lacombe with the passage. This event serves as a pretext for the revolutionary government which prohibits all the female clubs, to start with the Republican Revolutionists.

The fall of Mad then that of the Hébertistes endanger Claire Lacombe and it must hide. She is stopped the April 2nd 1794 with Pauline and Jean-Theophilus Leclerc. She is released in August 1795, one year after the Leclerc husbands. She takes again then her trade of actress. One loses his trace after 1798.

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