The French Republic was then shown as a women, leading the people and being a powerful woman, and she was called Marianne, allegedly after the name of an old society. She would still be associated with the First French Republic and with the French Revolution even centuries after the events. It was not a glorious soldier representing the Republic, it was still the sturdy woman leading the people against the enemy.
The main conclusion about the role of women in the French Revolution is that, despite the fact that they played an incredibly important role on all levels, starting with the political life and ending with simple, everyday duties, recognition was always hard to come and, especially, their struggle had to be two-fold, both for the ideals of the Revolution and their own goals and objectives as women who dreamed of having equal rights with men. In their struggle, they were often subject to a misogynist attitude and, quite often, struggled before attaining anything.
Nevertheless, in many of the key moments of the Revolution, the presence and role of women was equally important to that of men. They would also be...
Women and the French Revolution. On the Internet at http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2003/fr_rev_wmn.html.Last retrieved on March 25, 2008
2. Clark, Jennifer. Women in the French Revolution: the failure of the Parisian Women's Movement in relation to the other theories of feminism of Rousseau and Condorcet. The Concorde Review. 1992. Page 116.
2. Abbott, Jacob. Madame Roland. Harper and Brothers. 1902. Page 116.
Women and the French Revolution. On the Internet at http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/whm2003/fr_rev_wmn.html.Last retrieved on March 25, 2008
Clark, Jennifer. Women in the French Revolution: the failure of the Parisian Women's Movement in relation to the other theories of feminism of Rousseau and Condorcet. The Concorde Review. 1992. Page 116.
Abbott, Jacob. Madame Roland. Harper and Brothers. 1902. Page 116.
Ibid. Page 121.
