Elisabeth Bottom

Biography

Elisabeth Bottom , born Duplay, is a personality of the French revolution. Girl of Maurice Duplay and Francoise-Éléonore Vaugeois (which on their premises accommodated Maximilien de Robespierre of 1791 to 1794), sister of Éléonore Duplay, it married Philippe-François-Joseph Bottom.

Born in 1773, it is a sharp and enjouée young girl. She dissociates her older sister, Elèonore, by her manners " populaires" like by its liveliness. Michelet, in its History of the French revolution, describes it like " Sharp and charming, an occasion of dérider " did not lose; In 1793, she marries one of the collaborators of the incorruptible one: Philippe Lebas, member of the General committee of Safety. At the month of June 1794, it also puts at the world a fore-mentioned little boy Philippe and who will become, thereafter, the tutor of Napoleon III. Her husband commits suicide on Thermidor 9 Year II and she is imprisoned, like all her family during some time. Released, it moves in with her older sister and raises only her son.

Its memories provide us invaluable information on the life which Robespierre within the Dupaly family carried out during the Revolution.

Annecdotes

in History of the French revolution, Michelet brings back the following event: Camille Desmoulins " with a very guilty lightness and very libertine" would have given to the Elisabeth young person an erotic book. Robespierre surprising its gesture tears off the volume of the hands of the young girl and replaces it by a book of inoffensive images. Michelet concludes this episode as follows: " It showed neither sourness nor violence. But, either hatred of libertinage, or deep wound of clean love against insolate which respected if little the Holy of Holies of Robespierre, it forgot all the services of the friend, of the former comrade, who had worked so much of years to his reputation and as of this hour, it wanted his mort."

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