Marie-Thérèse Figueur

Thérèse Figueur, in her dragoons uniform
Nickname(s)	Mme Sans-Gêne
Born	(1774-01-17)January 17, 1774 Talmay
Died	January 16, 1861(1861-01-16) (aged 86) Paris, hospice des Petits Ménages
Allegiance	Kingdom of France  French First Republic
Years of service	1773–1800; 1803–1805; 1809/10–1814 1815
Unit	8th Hussars Légion des Allobroges 15th Dragoons
Battles/wars	Notably: Ulm Austerlitz Jena Burgos
Memorials	Plaque erected in 1907 at Talmay
Spouse(s)	1796: Henri Commarmot 1810:Charles Dovalle 1818: Clément Joseph Melchior Sutter

Marie-Thérèse Figueur (Talmay, 17 January 1774 – Paris, hospice des Petits Ménages, 4 January 1861), known by the nom de guerre Sans-Gêne (literally "unconstrained"), was a French heroine who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. In contrast with most female soldiers before the twentieth century, she did not disguise her gender when she enlisted, serving for twenty-two years under her own name in the French Revolutionary Army and the Grande Armée.

According to her memoirs, Marie-Thérèse Figueur was born in Talmay, near Dijon, the daughter of François Figueur, a miller and merchant, and Claudine Viard, from a family of minor nobility; orphaned at nine years, she was entrusted to a maternal uncle, Jean Viard, a sous-lieutenant in an infantry regiment.

By her own account, she was not initially a supporter of the French Revolution; her uncle was a firm, if discreet, royalist, and she feared her best friend, a drummer-boy in the Swiss Guard, had been killed during the overthrow of the monarchy, when the National Guard stormed the Tuileries Palace. She joined the counter-revolutionary Federalist uprising in 1793, in a unit of volunteer artillery led by her uncle, now a captain. Captured by the forces of the Republican government, she was encouraged to change sides, and on 9 July 1793, the nineteen-year-old girl enlisted as a cavalry trooper in the Légion des Allobroges under Colonel Pinon. Quickly earning the nickname le petit Sans-Gêne, she saw her first real battle in the siege of Toulon, where she was wounded for the first time, and first met Napoleon, then a young artillery commander.