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Executed French women

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Joan of Arc
French folk heroine (1412–1431), military leader who crowned Charles VII and Roman Catholic saint, canonized 500 years after her death
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette was Queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI from 10 May 1774 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1792. She was beheaded in 1793, during the Reign of Terror, a period of political violence in the French Revolution.
Olympe de Gouges
French playwright and political activist (1748–1793)
Manon Roland
French revolutionary
Charlotte Corday
figure of the French Revolution (1768-1793)
Madame du Barry
French noblewoman by marriage (1743–1793), last mistress of Louis XV (from 1768 to 1774)
Violette Szabo
French-British SOE spy
Princess Élisabeth of France
French Princess, Sister of King Louis XVI, Martyr and Servant of God
Marguerite Porete
French mystic
Madame de Brinvilliers
French murderer
Saint Faith
Gallo-Roman saint
Catherine Deshayes
Alleged sorceress
Leonora Dori
Italian noble
Lucile Desmoulins
French revolutionary
Rosalie Filleul
French painter (1752-1794)
Regina
virgin martyr and saint of the Catholic Church
Anne d'Arpajon
French noblewoman
Hélène Jégado
French domestic servant and serial killer (1803-1852)
Cécile Renault
French royalist
Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne
French noble
Solange
Carolingian saint
Marie Thérèse de Choiseul
Monegasque princess (1766-1794)
Claudine de Culam
servant hanged for zoophilia
Angéle de la Barthe
French witch
Marie-Louise Giraud
French abortionist (1903-1943)
France Bloch-Sérazin
French resistance fighter (1913-1943)
Pierronne
Pierronne, also known as Pierrone, Pierronne la Bretonne and Perrinaïc (died 3 September 1430), was a Breton woman who said she saw visions of "God dressed in a long white robe with a red tunic underneath". Pierronne, who may have met Joan of Arc in 1429, tried to defend her reputation at Corbeil. For this, Pierronne was arrested by pro-English authorities in March 1430 and burned at the stake.
Jeanne de Divion
French forger
Suzanne Masson
French resistance fighter
Marie Bosse
French occultist and alleged witch
Catherine Lepère
Convicted of abortion and executed by hanging
Marguerite Joly
Executed for witchcraft
Françoise-Augustine Duval d'Eprémesnil
French counter-revolutionary
Jeanne Harvilliers
executed for witchcraft
Françoise Filastre
French occultist
Marion du Faouët
17th century Breton highwaymen leader
Adrienne d'Heur
Alleged French witch executed in 1585
Amélie de Boufflers
duchesse de Lauzun, Duchesse de Biron