Joséphine Marchais
Petrol girl Joséphine Marchais was accused of setting fire to Paris. Here is her interview with Captain Briot after the 1871 Paris Commune.
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by 26 In the aftermath of the Paris Commune’s Bloody Week, Captain Briot was given the task of interrogating a number of alleged “petroleuses” (Petrol Girls) who were said to have set fire to the city of Paris and burnt many of its monuments to the ground .
These are some of the original records of the interrogations.
