How to Pronounce Renée Bordereau
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Jun 01, 1770 Maine et Loire, Pays de la Loire, France Died on 01 Jan 1828 (aged 57)
French wartime cross-dresser
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About Renée Bordereau
- Renée Bordereau (1776 in Soulaines-sur-Aubance – 1822 in Vezins, Maine-et-Loire), nicknamed The Angevin, was a French woman who followed her father, disguised herself as a man, and fought as a Royalist cavalier in the troops of Charles Melchior Artus de Bonchamps during the Vendéan insurrection against the French Revolution (in 1793) and took part in all battles of the war. She was born to peasant family south of Angers, France.
- She may have done some smuggling during her youth, carrying illegal salt between Maine (province) and Brittany.Her father was part of the riots of the Revolution and as result, was later executed by revolutionaries in December 1793.She is reputed to have killed some twenty of the opposing revolutionary Bleues including slitting the neck of her own uncle who was a republican.
- A unit led by her threw six hundred Republican soldiers from the heights of Roche-de-Mûrs in the commune of Mûrs-Erigné, south of the town of Angers, Pays de la Loire, into the Louet River below. Her effectiveness as a soldier is attested by independent sources, including Madame de La Rochejaquelein, who reported "She was of ordinary height and very ugly.
- One day at Cholet, they pointed her out to me.
- 'See that soldier who has sleeves of a color different from his coat.
- That's a girl who fights like a lion.'...
- Her unbelievable courage was celebrated throughout the whole army." On one of her own experiences, Bordereau wrote: "Arriving near the Loire, I destroyed five of my enemies, and finishing off the day, I broke my sword on the head of the last one...
- Seeing only one horseman near me, I doubled back to our army.
- I alone, killed twenty-one that day.
- I'm not the one who counted them, but those who followed me, and if they hadn't said so, I wouldn't have spoken about it myself."
