Charlotte de Robespierre
French writer (1760-1834)
Marie Marguerite Charlotte de Robespierre (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁlɔt d(ə) ʁɔbɛspjɛʁ]; 5 February 1760 – 1 August 1834) was a French writer and revolutionary. A Jacobin during the French Revolution, she is best known for the memoirs she dictated about the lives of her brothers, Maximilien Robespierre and Augustin Robespierre. She never married, and was described as respectable and entirely devoted to her brothers, to whom she was fiercely loyal.
Life
Born in Arras, she was the second child of François de Robespierre and Jacqueline Marguerite Carrault, the younger sister of Maximilien, and the elder sister of Henriette and Augustin Robespierre.
After the death of her mother, she and Henriette were both sent to live with their paternal aunts when her father left their home. They were given the typical education for middle- and upper-class daughters in pre-Revolutionary France, and were educated in a convent school in Tournai. Despite now living in separate homes and attending different schools, Charlotte still saw her siblings every Sunday, maintaining a close relationship with them. The death of her younger sister, Henriette, was quite hard for all three of them, especially Maximilien. In 1781, she left the convent school to live with her two brothers in Arras. In 1791, she led a campaign against Barbe-Therese Marchand's Affiches d'Artois, an anti-Jacobin newspaper.
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