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Bulkeley, Céleste Julie Michèle Talour de La Cartrie

Céleste Julie Michèle Talour de La Cartrie, known as Céleste Bulkeley

Born

14 May 1753

Died

13 March 1832

The daughter of an Angers family and the widow of a first husband when she married the Irish officer William Bulkeley in 1786, Céleste Bulkeley followed her second husband into the insurrection in March 1793 and fought beside him, her brother recording that her clothes were pierced by bullets several times without her being wounded. They joined Charette at Legé, fought at Torfou and Saint-Fulgent, and followed the Grande Armée across the Loire. Arrested with him near Nantes on Christmas Eve 1793, she was condemned to death at Angers but obtained a stay by declaring herself pregnant; her husband was guillotined the same day and her twelve-year-old daughter died in prison six weeks later. Released after Thermidor, she rejoined Charette. She married twice more and died at Angers in 1832.

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