Choosing to pursue new ideas, she became a member of the Fraternal Society of Both Sexes, which was an early example of active participation of women in politics.
At one of the group's meetings she met the prominent revolutionary Jacques René Hébert and they married on 7 February 1792.
[citation needed] The couple had a daughter Scipion-Virginie Hébert (7 February 1793 – 13 July 1830), but the infant was orphaned when her father was guillotined on 24 March 1794, and her mother Marie was guillotined on 13 April 1794, only twenty days later along with Lucile Desmoulins, Chaumette and Gobel, and others.
[1] The bodies of Marie Hébert, as well as the others guillotined that day, were disposed of in Errancis Cemetery.
[citation needed] Scipion-Virginie Hébert was raised by a printer, Jacques Christophe Marquet.