[3] They functioned partly as a fighting force among the market women of Paris, and employed violent tactics to root out anti-revolutionaries.
[7] Under the Reign of Terror, the enragés were suppressed, along with most other extremist groups, including the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women.
[8] Lacombe tried to defend herself, but it was too late; although she was only briefly detained, the seed of distrust had been planted in the minds of the revolution’s leaders.
Most of the issues that they now dealt with were more trivial and less radical than their previous campaigns; ostensibly, the notoriety resulting from the anti-reactionary violence of the Society led the National Convention to specifically ban women's political organizations on 30 October 1793.
[6] However, Chaumette's subsequent comments about men's right to have women care for the family, and how domestic duties were the only civic duties women had, suggests the group’s suppression was less a reaction to its violent actions in service of the Revolution, and more due to men’s fear of losing their control over the productive — and reproductive — labors of the female sex.
[7] Suffering from mental health problems, she was admitted to the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital on 19 June 1821,[11] where her profession was recorded as "teacher" ("institutrice").