Marie-Maurille de Sombreuil

Maurille de Sombreuil, also referred to as Marie-Maurille de Sombreuil or Mademoiselle de Sombreuil, was a French comtesse and daughter of Charles François de Virot de Sombreuil. Sombreuil and her father were imprisoned at Prison de l'Abbaye during the September Massacres in 1792, and her father was almost executed by the crowd. According to legend, Sombreuil made a deal with the septembriseurs to drink a glass of blood in exchange for her father's life. Other versions of the story say that she merely drank a glass of wine stained with blood. Still, she became known as the "l'héroïne au verre de sang" or "the heroine of the glass of blood", and the legend of her bravery inspired poetry and art.