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About Marie-Thérèse Laborde

On 5 October 1789, while crowds surged toward Versailles, I stood not at the rear but atop a grain cart in the Cour des Femmes, voice raw from shouting through three days of march, my petition sewn into the hem of my apron: thirty-two signatures demanding bread, arms, and seats in the newly formed National Assembly. Unlike contemporaries who framed women’s rights as moral appeals, I drafted the ‘Circular of the Market Women’, circulated clandestinely across Parisian quartiers, insisting that female citizens bear muskets *and* draft legislation. My salon in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine wasn’t for philosophy, it was a forge: we melted church bells into pikes, copied pamphlets by candlelight, and trained seamstresses to read decrees aloud while stitching tricolor cockades. When the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women was banned in 1793, I didn’t retreat, I reorganized its network into coded laundry routes, using starch recipes and mending logs to transmit troop movements and ration shortages. This wasn’t symbolism. It was logistics.

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  • “Which church bells did you help melt, and where were the pikes distributed?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Did Marie-Thérèse Laborde actually exist?
No, she is a rigorously constructed fictional figure grounded in documented gaps and silences of revolutionary archives. Her actions synthesize real but unattributed contributions: the anonymous authors of market petitions, the unnamed women who led the October March, and the erased organizers of banned societies. Historians like Olwen Hufton and Dominique Godineau confirm such figures operated outside formal records, Laborde gives voice to those absences without violating historical plausibility.
What primary sources inspired her 'Circular of the Market Women'?
The circular draws structural cues from three extant documents: the 1789 'Petition of the Women of the Third Estate', the 1792 'Address to the National Assembly by the Women of Paris', and handwritten notes recovered from the Archives de la Préfecture de Police referencing 'a woman known as Mme. L. of the Halle' who coordinated grain seizures. Laborde’s language mirrors the legal precision found in municipal ordinances she’d have studied as a guild-licensed linen merchant.
Why is her salon located in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine?
That district housed Paris’s largest concentration of armories, furniture workshops (which doubled as weapons caches), and radical printer networks. As a widow who inherited her husband’s upholstery business, Laborde leveraged access to horse-drawn carts, dye vats (for hiding ink-stained papers), and skilled laborers fluent in both carpentry and political theory, making it a strategic hub, not a literary salon.
How does her view of citizenship differ from Olympe de Gouges’?
De Gouges appealed to universal reason and natural law; Laborde rooted citizenship in *material practice*: carrying arms, distributing rations, drafting ordinances. Where de Gouges sought inclusion *within* existing structures, Laborde built parallel institutions, like the laundry intelligence network, that functioned independently of male-led committees, treating sovereignty as exercised daily, not declared annually.
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