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Louise Elisa Neckbecker (or Neibecker, née Keinerknecht) (1843 - after 1883) was a trim-maker and a communard who was captain of the Federated Legion of Women during the Paris Commune.[1]
She was born in Lay-Saint-Christophe.[2] During the Commune, she lived at 21 rue de la Croix-Rouge.[2] Her husband, Hermès Henri Neibecker, had died in prison on 6 January 1871; according to the police, she worked as a prostitute after being widowed.[1] In addition to her role as captain of the Federated Legion of Women, she frequently attended political clubs at St-Eloi in the 12th arrondissement and St-Bernard in the 13th arrondissement.[1] During Semaine sanglante, on 24 and 25 May, she attended to the ambulance at rue de Charenton, in the 12th arrondissement.[1] For her role in the Commune, on 8 April 1872 the 26th Court Martial sentenced her to five years in prison and ten years of surveillance.[2] She is one of only four women known with certainty to have been members of the Federated Legion of women.[3]
She had three children. She remarried, to Henry Deserdelle, at Nancy on 30 June 1883.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "NEIBECKER Louise, Élisa (veuve), née Keinerknecht.", aussi Neckbecker (in French), Paris: Maitron/Editions de l'Atelier, 2020-02-10, retrieved 2022-04-21
- ^ a b c Rey, Gayat & Pepino 2013, p. 161.
- ^ Johnson 1994, p. 288.
Bibliography[edit]
- Johnson, Martin Philip (1994). "Citizenship and gender: the légion des Fédérées in the Paris Commune of 1871". French History. 8 (3): 276-295.
- Rey, Claudine; Gayat, Annie; Pepino, Sylvie (2013). Petit dictionnaire des femmes de la Commune: Les oubliées de l'histoire (in French). Éditions Le bruit des autres.