Madame Boudray (''
fl.'' 1796), was a French militant
Jacobin
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active 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 November 1799. Many of its ideas are considere ...
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[Dominique Godineau]
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She was appointed secretary of the Société fraternelle des patriotes de l'un et l'autre sexe in 1791.
She was the owner and manager of the popular café Bains-Chinois in Paris, which was a gathering place for the Jacobins. The Babeuvists used her café as a base, and she was likely the only female member of the Babeuf Conspiracy of the Equals
The Conspiracy of the Equals (french: Conjuration des Égaux) of May 1796 was a failed coup d'Etat during the French Revolution. It was led by François-Noël Babeuf, who wanted to overthrow the Directory and replace it with an egalitarian and p ...
, which resulted in her arrest in 1796.
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18th-century French businesswomen