On this day, 4 August 1765, actor and revolutionary Claire Lacombe was born in Pamiers, south-west France. She participated in the Paris insurrection of August 1792, including the storming of the Tuileries Palace, despite being shot through the arm. With Pauline Léon she formed the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women – an organisation of working class women containing the most radical elements of the revolutionaries: the sans-culottes and the enragés. When these working class elements were suppressed by the moderates, the Society had become so notorious that all women’s organisations were banned, and Lacombe herself was later arrested and jailed for 16 months.
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