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    "pétroleuses", which began 3 September 1871. Léontine Suétens was born in 1846 in Beauvais. Her father, Jean Baptiste Suétens, a tailor with progressive ideas, left...
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    and at the Légion d'Honneur: Élizabeth Rétiffe, Joséphine Marchais, Léontine Suétens, Eulalie Papavoine, and Lucie Bocquin. They had been armed, and some...
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    and red scarves, along with Élisabeth Rétiffe, Eulalie Papavoine and Léontine Suétens. She denied the charges, saying that she had only been near the barricade...
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  • is known to have dressed in the uniform of the National Guard and Léontine Suétens was wounded twice. Marguerite Lachaise [fr] and Elizabeth Dmitrieff...
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    "pétroleuses" began on 3 September 1871. Papavoine was accused, alongside Léontine Suétens, of having stolen three handkerchiefs from a house on the Rue de Solférino...
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