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Sophie Victoire Alexandrine de Girardin was born in 1762 and died on April 21, 1845[1]. She was a French aristocrat but is mostly known for her book about women's life in prison during the French Revolution.
Biography
[edit]Sophie Victoire Alexandrine de Girardin was the second child of René de Girardin and Cécile Brigitte Adélaïde Berthelot.
She married Alexandre de Vassy, the marquess of Pirou in 1781 and the couple had a son, Amédée. Widowed a few years later, she married Chrétien André Guillaume de Bohm (1768-1824) in 1803. Together, they had a daughter and a son.
During the French Revolution, Sophie went to Switzerland to escape persecution. She spent four years there then came back in France and was arrested in Senlis on August 15, 1793. She is imprisoned in Chantilly prison and somewhere between the end of the year 1793 and the beginning of 1794, she was transfered to the Plessis prison, which was know to be a terrible one.
She's finally released on August 31,1794, after Robespierre's death. In 1830, she publishes what is one of the most precise book about women's living condition in prison during the French Revolution [2] : Prisonnière sous la Terreur: mémoires d'une captive en 1793 [earlier title: Les Prisons en 1793].
She died on April 21, 1845, and is buried next to her husband Chrétien de Bohm in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris[3].
References
[edit]- ^ "Vassy" – via BnF Catalogue général (http:// catalogue.bnf.fr).
- ^ Bohm, comtesse de; Vassy, Sophie-Victoire-Alexandrine de Girardin comtesse de (December 3, 1830). "Les prisons en 1793". Bobee et Hingray – via Google Books.
- ^ "Cimetière du Père Lachaise - APPL - GIRARDIN Sophie Victoire Alexandrine de, comtesse de BOHM (1763-1845)". April 21, 2021.