Background
She was the daughter of Claude Etienne Laridon Duplessis, an official of the French Treasury, and Anne (sometimes given as Annette) Françoise Marie Boisdeveix.
She was the daughter of Claude Etienne Laridon Duplessis, an official of the French Treasury, and Anne (sometimes given as Annette) Françoise Marie Boisdeveix.
Her sister, Adèle Duplessis, was briefly engaged to Maximilien Robespierre. The Desmoulins"s only child, Horace Camille, was born July 6, 1792. Robespierre stood as his godfather.
Camille Desmoulins was executed on the same day Lucile was arrested, and Lucile followed him to the guillotine on April 13, 1794.
She is reported to have remarked, while awaiting her execution, "They have assassinated the best of mentor If I did not hate them for that, I should bless them for the service they have done me this day."
He migrated to Haiti in 1817, and died there in 1825.