Léontine Suétens
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Léontine Suétens was a laundress and a communard. She was convicted in the trial of the "pétroleuses", which began 3 September 1871.
Portrait of Léontine Suétens by Ernest-Charles Appert at the Chantiers prison at Versailles
Eulalie Papavoine
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Eulalie Papavoine was a Parisian seamstress. She participated in the Paris Commune as an ambulance nurse.
Léontine Suétens
…Rétiffe and Joséphine Marchais. Victor Hugo took up the defence, partly of Théophile Ferré and Louis Rossel, but also of three women: Léontine Suétens, Eulalie Papavoine, and Joséphine Marchais. He considered the insurgents to be revolutionary fighters, not criminals under common law. Regarding the three women, he also…
Trial of the pétroleuses of Saint-Germain, 1871 engraving – Archives Nationales.