Marie Lévesque
Marie Lévesque (unknown – 31 October 1792) was a French merchant and a member of the Templar Order, operating during the French Revolution. She, along with Chrétien Lafrenière, Louis-Michel le Peletier and Charles Gabriel Sivert, served as advisors of the Grand Master François de la Serre for several years.
However, when François-Thomas Germain was exiled, Lévesque secretly pledged her allegiance to him, becoming part of a radical faction that sought to gain control of the Order. Following their murder of de la Serre, they engineered the French Revolution; Lévesque's role in this scheme was to hoard grain, causing the people of Paris to grow not only hungry, but angry and desperate.
Biography
Marie Lévesque was the wife of Thomas Lévesque, and a merchant like her husband. Her family was affiliated with the Templar Order since their founding, and she was the only one who argued against the exile of the powerful Templar François-Thomas Germain. Marie threw in with him during his plot against François de la Serre, and in 1792 participated in intrigues involving the denial of food to peasants.
In the summer of 1792, at the advice of Théroigne de Méricourt, the Assassin Arno Dorian killed Lévesque's assistant Flavigny, in order to stop the riots in Les Halles caused by the theft of bread from the people. Furthermore, in October, Arno discovered her involvement in the plot by stealing orders from the captain of a grain barge at the Hotel de Ville docks. The orders revealed to Arno that she was at the Luxembourg Palace, where she stored the grain; the people believed that the royal family had hoarded the grain, adding to the anti-Royalist sentiment that would place the Templar Maximilien de Robespierre in power.
To combat this, Arno was able to infiltrate the Luxembourg Palace and kill Marie in the ballroom. From her death, he found out that Louis-Michel le Peletier was planning to have the King executed due to the Templars' success in their plot, and set forth to tracking the man.
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