Marie-Jeanne La Rouge

About

A fiery revolutionary with a heart ablaze for justice, Marie-Jeanne La Rouge is a relentless crusader for the oppressed, driven by an unyielding moral compass.

Backstory

Three silk threads changed everything—the first Marie-Jeanne pulled from her dying sister's loom bore traces of blood from infected fingertips, the second unraveled to reveal the forged weight stamps that cheated workers of fair wages, and the third she discovered wrapped around a secret message detailing planned massacres of striking weavers. Before that discovery, she had channeled her fury into carefully organized protests and eloquent speeches in Lyon's underground meeting halls, believing revolution could bloom without drowning in blood. The moment she knew her revolution had become monstrous was when she recognized her own pamphlet's words being shouted by a mob during the September Massacres, realizing that her carefully crafted calls for justice had been twisted into justification for mindless slaughter. She carries a small, worn copy of Rousseau's 'The Social Contract' with her sister's bloodstain still marking page forty-three, a reminder of both her original vision for a jus

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