Anne Félicité Colombe ( fl. 1793), was a French printer and publisher, and a political activist during the

French revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in coup of 18 Brumaire, November 1799. Many of its ...

.Dominique Godineau, The Women of Paris and their French Revolution, pp. 67-68 She published the radical journals ''L'Ami du Peuple'' and ''l'Orateur du Peuple''. She was the owner and proprietor of the Henri IV printshop at the

Place Dauphine The Place Dauphine is a public square located near the western end of the Île de la Cité in the first arrondissement of Paris. It was initiated by Henry IV in 1607, the second of his projects for public squares in Paris, the first being the P ...

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. She was a newspaper publisher and participated in the public debate during the revolution. She published Jean-Paul Marat's journal ''

L'Ami du Peuple ''L'Ami du peuple'' (, ''The Friend of the People'') was a newspaper written by Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution. "The most celebrated radical paper of the Revolution", according to historian Jeremy D. Popkin, ''L’Ami du peuple'' ...

'' (1790), which caused her newspapers to be seized and she was interrogated as to where Marat could be found. After the Champ-de-Mars fusillade, she was one of four women to be arrested on 17 July 1791. She had militant revolutionary sympathies, and was a prominent member of the

Society of Revolutionary Republican Women The Society of Revolutionary and Republican Women (''Société des Citoyennes Républicaines Révolutionnaires'', ''Société des républicaines révolutionnaires'') was a female-led revolutionary organization during the French Revolution. The Soc ...

in 1793. She was described as generous, and after she was acquitted from the libel lawsuit of 1790, she gave to the poor of her neighborhood the twenty thousand livres that her accuser Etienne was condemned to pay her.

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L'Ami du peuple ''L'Ami du peuple'' (, ''The Friend of the People'') was a newspaper written by Jean-Paul Marat during the French Revolution. "The most celebrated radical paper of the Revolution", according to historian Jeremy D. Popkin, ''L’Ami du peuple'' ...

" of Jean-Paul Marat in 1790-1791 * " L'Orateur du peuple" in 1790-1791 * "

Le Père Duchesne ''Le Père Duchesne'' (; "Old Man Duchesne" or "Father Duchesne") was an extreme radical newspaper during the French Revolution, edited by Jacques Hébert, who published 385 issues from September 1790 until eleven days before his death by guill ...

", in 1791-1792 * " Journal du faubourg Saint-Antoine" in 1791 * " Journal des débats de la Société des amis de la Constitution, séante aux Jacobins" in 1791-1793 * " Le Thermomètre du jour" in 1792

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* Dominique Godineau:
The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution
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