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Le Bas, Élisabeth Duplay

Élisabeth Duplay Le Bas

Born

16 August 1772

Died

4 April 1859

The youngest daughter of the master carpenter Maurice Duplay, in whose house Robespierre lodged from 1791, Élisabeth Duplay married the Convention deputy Philippe Le Bas in August 1793. She accompanied him to Strasbourg while he and Saint-Just were serving as representatives on mission with the Army of the Rhine. Their son was born on 17 June 1794. On 9 Thermidor, Le Bas asked to share the arrest of Robespierre and his allies, escaped with them to the Hôtel de Ville and shot himself during its capture. Élisabeth was subsequently imprisoned with her infant son, while her mother was found hanged in prison in circumstances officially recorded as suicide. Released in 1795, she later married Le Bas’s younger brother. At her son’s request, she began an unfinished memoir in 1843. Its recollections of the Duplay household remain an important source for Robespierre’s private life. She died in 1859.

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