[1] She was a cantinière during the Paris Commune and was commended for her bravery in her care for the wounded in late April 1871.

Victorine went into hiding for a year after being arrested and sentenced to death for setting the Court of Auditors on fire and subsequently absconded to Geneva.

In 1874, with her husband released from prison, they returned to Geneva, where Victorine worked as a shoemaker and participated in the Jura Federation and anarchists including Paul Brousse, Elisée Reclus, and Andrea Costa.

[1] Likely after the amnesty, she returned to Paris and served as a city delegate at the 1881 London Anarchist Congress.

[1] Brocher and her second husband relocated to Lausanne in 1892 where they operated a bookstore and youth boarding house until 1912.