Any other important women who were beheaded during the French revelution other than Marie Antoinette?

Question

Any other important women who were beheaded during the French revelution other than Marie Antoinette?

Answer 1

Madame du Barry caused quite a spectacle when her head was chopped off

Answer 2

any French woman decapitated was important... one less of em

Answer 3

Don't forget Charlotte Corday, who assassinated Marat in his bath!

The writer, Olympe de Gouges, was guillotined for her revolutionary ideas.

Madame Roland, who fell out of favour during the Reign of Terror.  She cried out, "Oh Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name!"

They're all I can think of...

Answer 4

Charlotte Gorday,  a patriot young woman who killed Jean Paul Marat at his bathtub in 1793

Answer 5

The Princess de Lamballe.  Her lynching, immediately after the Royal Family's flight to Varennes, made her the most famous victim of the Reign of Terror.  It's also what started the anti-republican propaganda against the revolutionaries.

Madame Elisabeth.  King Louis' younger sister.  She was the most conservative of the Royal Family, and adamantly against the Revolution.  Her execution served only to turn her into a martyr though, and turned many French against the Republicans and the Revolution.

Answer 6

The wife of Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de La Fayette (Gen. LaFayette) lost her mother, grandmother and eldest sister to the guillotine (amongst other relatives and associates). Marie-Adrienne-Françoise was condemned to die but for reasons unknown, did not meet that same fate.

Answer 7

The number of women guillotined in revolutionary France probably runs into well over 1,000.

One of last women to be so executed during the reign of terror was Poulet, the Duchess of Sanstête. When, following the usual practice, the executioner held up the severed head for the crowds to see, it seemed that the head started singing, "Je n'ai aucun corps" (the French version of the song, "I ain't got nobody"). This apparent miracle turned many of the population against the leaders of the reign of terror; however, many years later, it was revealed that the voice was the work of a ventriloquist who had positioned himself next to the scaffold.