Barbe-Therese Marchand (1745 -fl. 1792), was a French journalist and editor. She was the

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and chief editor of the ''Affiches d'Artois'' of

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in 1789–1792.«Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. Lenglet», Mémoires de l'Académie d'Arras, t. XVII, 1836, p. 131-198. Her newspaper became known for its opposition against the Jacobins, and she came to be in conflict with

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and Charlotte Robespierre. She discontinued her paper and left the country in 1792 in fear of political persecution.

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