Madame Defarge
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Madame Thérèse Defarge is the wife of Ernest Defarge and a tireless worker for the French Revolution in the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
She is arguably the main villain of the book, and ruthlessly seeks revenge against the Evrèmondes, including Charles Darnay, his wife Lucie Manette and their child for crimes against her family. These crimes include the deaths of her sister, father, and brother.
She is constantly knitting, and uses patterns in the knitting to register names and descriptions of the enemies of the Revolution. The names she knits are those of the people who must die for the Revolution. In the end, she inadvertently dies from her own gun while fighting with Miss Pross to gain entrance to Lucie's apartment.
In the 1981 Mel Brooks film, History of the World, Part I, Mme Defarge (played by Cloris Leachman) is the chief conspirator in the plot to overthrow King Louis. She has become so poor, she has run out of wool, simply rubbing her knitting needles together.
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