Valentine Peigné-Crémieux
1855–1876 (age 21)
Biography
Valentine Peigné-Crémieux lived a brief but meaningful life in nineteenth-century France. Born in 1855, she came of age during a period of significant social and cultural transformation in French society.
Though her life was cut short in 1876 at the age of twenty-one, Valentine's memory was preserved through her burial in Montparnasse Cemetery, a place of honor and remembrance. Her life, though brief, remains part of the historical record of her era.