André Chazal

After moving back from rural France to Paris, FT found a job as a colourist with a lithographer named André Chazal .

Two months before her eighteenth birthday, FT married her employer, André Chazal , at a civil ceremony in Paris.

FT left her husband, André Chazal , while pregnant with their third child.

FT was finally granted a legal separation from her husband —who shortly thereafter began to make arrangements to murder her.

After she separated from her husband, FT never again lived with all three of their children together. To keep her children from Chazal , she often left them in her mother's care, placed them in...

FT and Chazal engaged in constant battle over their three children. Their first son, born in 1822 or 1823, died in 1832. In late March 1832, FT agreed to leave their second son, Ernest-Camille (born...

Although FT was ashamed of this period of her life and tried to expunge the record from her diary, her employment as a lady's maid provided her with the opportunity to travel and enabled her...

Shortly after leaving Chazal , FT began to self-identify as a pariah or outcast. According to Doris and Paul Beik , FT was strongly motivated by what she called her pariah condition—that of a woman...

FT used her husband's trial as a platform for her stand against capital punishment. Shortly before Chazal was sentenced, her petition to abolish the death penalty was brought before the Chamber of Deputies .

She here asserts her independence and renounces her earlier desires for an aristocratic life. The Pariah presents herself as a brave, honest martyr passionately interested in people from all social classes. The book treats...

FT 's husband abducted their youngest daughter, Aline , on her way to school. A violent confrontation between Chazal and his wife ensued, which ended in her arrest.

FT 's estranged husband André Chazal shot her outside her apartment on rue du Bac in Paris.