Actress and Parisian revolutionary, 1765 - 1798

Lacombe, Claire: A former actress in Marseille and Lyon, Claire Lacombe got fought alongside other revolutionary women on the Paris barricades starting in the summer of 1789. A friend of the radical Cordeliers Club, along with Pauline Léon, she founded the Women’s Revolutionary Republican Club: a women’s-only political group, in favor of a democratic and social republic. After being imprisoned in 1794 and 1795, she returned to acting in Nantes before coming back to Paris.

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The Expiatory Chapel and its neighborhood

Lakanal’s Garden and the Kings’ Heads of Notre-Dame