Condemned for incivism; the district that let her be guillotined was regretting "this virtuous woman inhumanly sacrificed" the following year.
Born at Metz in 1736 into a very modest family of fifteen children, she entered the Daughters of Charity on her twenty-first birthday. After Pau, Autun, Brest, Fontainebleau and Troyes, the bishop of Dax entrusted her in 1779 with the hospital of Saint-Eutrope, which he had just had built: she was its first superior, opened there a school for boys and girls, had a chapel raised and took in abandoned girls. The Revolution suppressed the congregations; the sisters carried on under the name of ladies of charity. In 1793 they refused the oath. Arrested on Christmas Eve, shut up in the Carmelite convent, questioned alone and without defence, she was condemned on 8 April 1794 for having "by her incivism sought to corrupt and to slow the revolutionary and republican spirit", and guillotined the next day on the place Poyanne, tied back to back with a non-juring priest. A year later the district directory declared that "the commune of Dax will long regret this virtuous woman who, by a character holding to her religious opinion, was inhumanly sacrificed on grounds the proof of which has yet to be furnished"; the solemn civil reparation came only in 1905. The tribunal had judged her on a political charge; Benedict XVI recognised in 2010 that the charge concealed another, and she was beatified at Dax on 19 June 2011.
A Daughter of Charity in cornette and grey-blue habit, with the palm of martyrdom; sometimes the hospital of Dax behind.