The Most Prominent Revolutionary Women Among the "Hebertists":
After the Babouvist women that I put here https://www.tumblr.com/nesiacha/776228737545060352/the-most-prominent-revolutionary-women-among-the?source=share here are the revolutionary women of my favorite faction
Marie-Françoise Goupil, wife of Hébert: She supported her husband's policies and became friends with Lucile Desmoulins while in prison. See the full and great post by @anotherhumaninthisworld on this often overlooked woman here.
Henriette Simonin Widow Chaumette : She corresponded with Gracchus Babeuf after her husband’s execution.
Sophie Momoro: Sophie played the role of the Goddess of Reason during the dechristianization ceremonies. You can find more about her role here. She also managed her husband's workshop and printing presses in his absence, accompanying him on a mission to Vendée. Momoro expressed his wife’s political views in a letter and she also drafted an appeal for assistance to the Convention in his characteristic style.
Marie-Angélique, widow of Ronsin and wife of Turreau: She is said to have met Ronsin in Belgium when he was overseeing Dumouriez, or possibly while she was working as a canteen keeper, according to Geneanet. She married Charles-Philippe Ronsin in 1793.
Here is the revolutionary period of Marie-Angélique Lequesne: “Marie-Angélique Lequesne was caught up in the measures taken against the Hébertists and imprisoned on the 1st of Germinal at the Maison d'Arrêt des Anglaises. She frequently engaged with ultra-revolutionary circles both before and after Ronsin’s death, even dressing as an Amazon to congratulate the Directory on a victory.”
According to Jorris' correspondence, when she remarried Turreau, this is what was said about them. A.-J. de Rivaz dedicated an entire chapter to them in his Mémoires historiques sur le Valais. He expressed his hostility toward anyone who adhered to the principles of the French Revolution: Turreau “commits the blunder of not publicly performing any act of the Roman religion”; his wife, Marie-Angélique, “has the audacity to speak of it with contempt,” and she does not blush “to say that she had never been happier since she had shaken off the yoke of the Christian superstition in which she had been raised.”
Described as good-natured, intelligent, generous, plain, and curious, Marie-Angélique was diplomatic, and later, when Turreau was appointed ambassador to America, she charmed the political class. She became a close friend of Dolley Madison, one of the future First Ladies of the United States, and played an essential role in her political development. They had a great relationship.
Unfortunately, her second marriage to Turreau became abusive to the point where he separated her from her children after years of mistreatment, as seen here, and the separation from her children here.
If you want to know more about her first husband Ronsin, it's here https://www.tumblr.com/nesiacha/769225405243752448/the-life-of-charles-philippe-ronsin-from?source=share
Sylvie Audouin: Daughter of Jean Nicolas Pache (the first part of the post on Pache is here), who was the Minister of War during the French Revolution, and later the wife of the Hébertist Xavier Audouin (the post dedicated to Xavier Audouin is here). Despite being only 16 years old, Sylvie signed a 1792 manifesto alongside her father, her future husband, and revolutionaries such as Pauline Léon. According to Xavier Audouin, she openly supported his policies (and thus the Hébertist cause) and did not hesitate to speak about them.
Sylvie became more widely known when, while imprisoned and kept in solitary confinement for 100 days, she displayed immense courage and openly supported her father and especially her husband, who were also imprisoned, even earning a civic crown.
After being freed, she fought to share the "bread and bed" of her husband, during a time when the fate of her family’s men was uncertain. She became famous in the fortress of Ham, where she communicated with them, wrote letters in their defense, and even wrote a book about her experiences. If you are interested in learning more about her revolutionary life, see the post on Sylvie here.
Jeanne Lallemand: Mother of Jean-Nicolas Pache, who was also imprisoned for 100 days during the same period as her granddaughter Sylvie. According to Xavier Audouin, she applauded her son’s and her granddaughter’s husband’s desires to serve their country.
