help!

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

I'm currently working on comics about the French Revolution, and I need to know; does anybody know what Simonne Évrard looked like?

A picture, a description, any if all information would be very helpful! I'm having a lot of trouble finding anything!

Thank you all in advance!

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[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

I searched a bit and didn't come up with anything. :/ Sorry!

Oooh, comics, huh? Sounds cool~ Will you post them here? :3

[jonahmama.livejournal.com]

I assume you are looking for an actual historical account, not a fictional one. Unfortunately this is outside my usual scope of research, however I can recommend a few resources, besides checking out the usual Marat biographies.
A Google search with the terms: women, French Revolution, Evrard turned up the following from http://www.marxists.org/archive/bax/1900/marat/ch07.htm: "Simonne was born on the 6th of February 1764, and was therefore about twenty-six years of age when she made Marat’s acquaintance, and began first of all to give him shelter. She is described as of a figure a little above the middle height, with brown hair and eyes, with a forehead of ordinary size, but rather a large mouth, chin well formed and rounded, aquiline nose and oval face."

You might also try contacting the Jean-Paul Marat Association at http://seni.club.fr/index.html. In addition, Hilary Mantel in her book "A Place of Greater Safety" has an excellent description of Evrard, which may be based on her prodigious research or her excellent imagination. Hard to know, however she says in the foreword to her book that she has considered writing a novel about Marat, so I'd probably try to contact her (try e-mailing her British publisher) and ask her where she did her research. Another similar person of authority may be Marge Piercy, whose book "City of Darkness, City of Light" specifically focuses on the women of the Reevolution, though not Simone Evrard. She may have also traveled this road in her extensive research (www.margepiercy.com gives contact info through her publisher).

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

This is what Esquiros' Histoire des Montagnards says of her: "Simonne Évrard...C'était une nature hystérique et sibylline, une femme aux yeux et aux cheveux noirs..."

Le Grand Amour de Marat et Simonne

[matador41.livejournal.com]

Only two years later but never mind. Sadly no image exists of her that I've yet come across in five years of snooping around. But there is an interesting article with information not found anywhere else. unfortunately no sources either so it's hard to know how reliable it is but anyway here's the reference if you're interested.
Le Grand Amour de Marat et Simonne Evrard by Jules Mazé in a now (I think) defunct magazine called Historia no 279 from February 1970. Happy hunting :)
PS this record of Judy Collins you're lisetning to. Does it have songs called Homage to Marat, Marat, we're poor and Poor old Marat, all by Peasle? Is Marat-Sade a song cycle then?