Thérèse Caval

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Thérèse Caval (1750–1795), was a French revolutionary. She is regarded as a symbolic heroine of the French revolution in Marseille. [1] 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.

References

  1. Académie de Marseille, Dictionnaire des Marseillais, Edisud, Marseille, 2003 ( ISBN   2-7449-0254-3)