When Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin’s husband left her widowed at just 27, she took over his side hustle. She then turned it into an empire and invented champagne as we know it.
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Jeanne de Clisson
Jeanne de Clisson was a French noblewoman who became a pirate queen. After the French king executed her husband, she spent over a decade killing as many Frenchman as possible as a revenge.
Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya
After her husband was killed by the Nazis, Mariya Oktyabrskaya asked Stalin for a tank, so she could use it to mow down German soldiers in revenge.