Thérèse Caval (1750–1795), was a
French revolutionary. She is regarded as a symbolic heroine of the French revolution in
Marseilles
Marseille (; ; see below) is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean S ...
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[Académie de Marseille, Dictionnaire des Marseillais, Edisud, Marseille, 2003 ()] With
Elisabeth Taneron, she is regarded as the leading figure in the hanging of the anti revolutionary Cayole in 1792. In 1795, she was one of 26 murdered in a massacre performed by royalist forces.
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Sources
* Académie de Marseille, Dictionnaire des Marseillais, Edisud, Marseille, 2003 ()
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1750 births
1795 deaths
Women in the French Revolution
18th-century French women
People from Marseille
French murder victims
People killed in the French Revolution
People who died in prison custody during the French Revolution
People murdered in France