Eulalie Papavoine
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Eulalie Papavoine was a Parisian seamstress. She participated in the Paris Commune as an ambulance nurse.
Trial of the pétroleuses of Saint-Germain, 1871 engraving – Archives Nationales.
Pétroleuses
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Pétroleuses were, according to popular rumours at the time, female supporters of the Paris Commune, accused of burning down much of Paris during the last days of the Commune in May 1871. During May, w
Eulalie Papavoine
…other women to the Chantiers prison at Versailles. Eventually she was taken to a detention centre with very difficult conditions. The trial of the "pétroleuses" began on 3 September 1871. Papavoine was accused, alongside Léontine Suétens, of having stolen three handkerchiefs from a house on the Rue de Solférino…
Pétroleuses arrested in Versailles