Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach 4:45 p.m., September 1, 2021
High dignitary of the Empire, for having rallied to Napoleon at the time of the hundred days, Lavalette was arrested at his home on July 18, 1815, brought before an assize court for conspiracy and usurpation of office and he was condemned to death on November 20, 1815. He was to be executed a month later, on December 21. He is imprisoned at the Conciergerie. His desperate wife tries to obtain his pardon, twice she throws herself at the feet of the king at the Tuileries, who hardly pays him any attention! Now animated by the energy of despair, having nothing more to lose, she decides to act. The day before her execution, she will take her place in prison, and her husband escapes dressed as a woman.