Marie Marguerite Françoise Hébert
Marie Marguerite Françoise Hébert | |
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Born | Marie Goupil 1756 Jacques René Hébert |
Children | Scipion-Virginie Hébert |
Marie Marguerite Françoise Hébert, née Marie Goupil (1756, Paris – 13 April 1794, Paris), was a figure in the French Revolution who died by guillotine during the Reign of Terror.
Biography
Marie Goupil was born in Paris to Jacques Goupil, a lingerie merchant who died prematurely, and Louise Morel (who died in 1781).[citation needed]
She became a nun in the convent of the Conception (
The couple had a daughter Scipion-Virginie Hébert (7 February 1793 – 13 July 1830), but the infant was orphaned when her father was guillotined on 24 March 1794, and her mother Marie was guillotined on 13 April 1794, only twenty days later along with Lucile Desmoulins, Chaumette and Gobel, and others.[1] The bodies of Marie Hébert, as well as the others guillotined that day, were disposed of in Errancis Cemetery.[citation needed]
Scipion-Virginie Hébert was raised by a printer, Jacques Christophe Marquet. She became undermistress of a boarding school and married a Reformed pastor and had six children. She died at 37 years of age.[2]
References
- ^ "Vente aux enchères de Marie-Marguerite-Françoise Goupil,... | Gazette Drouot". www.gazette-drouot.com. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- JSTOR 41925452.