Print Bibliography & Primary Sources

*Liberty: the Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France.* By Lucy Moore (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007). Library of Congress General Collections.

This bibliography has been separated into three sections: English Language, French Language and Primary Sources. A selection of the most notable primary sources is included, usually in modern edition publications, along with any special format collections (such as Revolutionary newspapers). Many of these original documents are held in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division but we encourage the use of the modern editions, available in our general collections, to reduce the wear on delicate materials. To locate periodicals on the French Revolution search the Library's catalog: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Periodicals. Most of the Library's databases are reserved for onsite only access, however if a research visit is possible, there are relevant articles in a variety of languages available. For further reading on France's colonial territories and related revolutionary movements see the series France overseas: studies in empire and decolonization. For individual biographies, memoirs, correspondences and other publications, first identify the subject heading for the individual. More well-documented individuals will have more involved subject headings that narrow down the focus, e.g. the name and a further category such as--Correspondence (followed by the number of items held in the Library). The primary subject heading followed by a brief select bibliography of items relating to some of the more significant individuals are located under Key Figures in the Revolution. Because the French Revolution of 1789 is one of the most documented events in the history of the world, this bibliography is only a starting point for further exploration into the role of women during the Revolution. The bibliographies in each monograph are also excellent. Title translations [provided in brackets] are unofficial. Where digital copies are available, they are listed under the Digital Resources page of the Guide. Some titles are cross referenced in other sections of the guide. Because of the ongoing nature of digitization it is always worth searching online for digital copies that may have become available after this guide was compiled.

For information on the French Revolution in general, see the summary and bibliography Revolutions in France: 1789, 1830 and 1832.

The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.

Print Resources

Between the Queen and the Cabby by John R. Cole
Call Number: HQ 1615.G68 C65 2001
ISBN: 9780773538863
Published/Created: 2011
In Between the Queen and the Cabby, John Cole provides the first full translation of de Gouges's Rights of Woman and the first systematic commentary on its declaration, its attempt to envision a non-marital partnership agreement, and its support for persons of colour. Cole compares and contrasts de Gouges's two texts, explaining how the original text was both her model and her foil. By adding a proposed marriage contract to her pamphlet, she sought to turn the ideas of the French Revolution into a concrete way of life for women. Further examination of her work as a playwright suggests that she supported equality not only for women but for slaves as well. Cole highlights the historical context of de Gouges's writing, going beyond the inherent sexism and misogyny of the time in exploring why her work did not receive the reaction or achieve the influential status she had hoped for. Read in isolation in the gender-conscious twenty-first century, de Gouges's Rights of Woman may seem ordinary. However, none of her contemporaries, neither the Marquis de Condorcet nor Mary Wollstonecraft, published more widely on current affairs, so boldly attempted to extend democratic principles to women, or so clearly related the public and private spheres. Read in light of her eventual condemnation by the Revolutionary Tribunal, her words become tragically foresighted: "Woman has the right to mount the Scaffold; she must also have that of mounting the Rostrum."
Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 by Félix Germain (Editor); Silyane Larcher (Editor); T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Foreword by)
Call Number: HQ1236.5.F8 B54 2018
ISBN: 9781496201270
Published/Created: 2018
Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality,1848-2016 does not go back as far as the 1789 Revolution, however it is an important work in beginning to address the role of colored French women in a history that always claimed to be color blind. It explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis experienced and reacted to French colonialism and how gendered readings of colonization, decolonization, and social movements cast new light on the history of French colonization and of black France. In addition to delineating the powerful contributions of black French women in the struggle for equality, contributors also look at the experiences of African American women in Paris and in so doing integrate into colonial and postcolonial conversations the strategies black women have engaged in negotiating gender and race relations à la française. Drawing on research by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and countries, this collection offers a fresh, multidimensional perspective on race, class, and gender relations in France and its former colonies, exploring how black women have negotiated the boundaries of patriarchy and racism from their emancipation from slavery to the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Blood Sisters by Marilyn Yalom
Call Number: DC145 .Y35 1993
ISBN: 0465092632
Published/Created: 1993
"The promises of "liberty, equality, and fraternity" did not extend to women, but with the publication of Blood Sisters, the voices of the women who witnessed the French Revolution are finally restored to history." "They left us an invaluable legacy - some eighty accounts of what they saw and experienced. These chronicles range from the sixteen-page testimonial of the Widow Bault, wife of the concierge in Marie-Antoinette's prison, to the ten-volume memoirs of the prolific writer Mme de Genlis; from the dictated life story of an illiterate peasant to acknowledged classics by Mme Roland and Mme de Stael. No other literature in the Western world offers such an early treasury of women recording their personal histories within the context of a great political cataclysm." "Their stories describe how they participated, individually and collectively, in the revolutionary saga and how they sometimes succeeded in manipulating a political system designed to exclude them. Whatever their political loyalties, the women saw themselves as victims, and their accounts document the connection between gender and victimization. Yet they did not accept their victimization passively. The memoirists of Blood Sisters portray themselves as active participants cheering the Revolution on its course or, more frequently, resisting it." "Marilyn Yalom singles out those who authored the most unforgettable chronicles: the governess of the royal children; the servant attending Marie-Antoinette in her last days; Robespierre's sister, Charlotte; the peasant woman from the Vendee who fought as a soldier; and, of course, Mme Roland, whose autobiography has enchanted readers for centuries. Aristocrats and bourgeois women, royalists and republicans, even the few peasant and working-class women who left accounts of their experiences - all were bound together by a common nightmare." "These compelling human dramas - moving accounts of survival on the cusp of catastrophe - add suffering faces to the canvas of lofty thinkers and fiery orators who dominate the historiography of the Revolution. They tell us what it was like to suffer a miscarriage as the result of a street demonstration, to choose between nursing a baby and following a husband to war, to resist jailers' demands for sexual favors. A tragic note prevails: the sense of having survived when so many others perished often produced what we might now call "survivor's guilt." Their testimonies, Yalom argues, spring from an inner urgency to bear witness for those who were sacrificed on the revolutionary altar. Their writings eloquently attest to the human costs of radical social change. New edition published in 2015 as, "Compelled to Witness: Women's Memoirs of the French Revolution".
British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s by Pamela Clemit (Editor)
Call Number: PR448.S64 C36 2011
ISBN: 9780521516075
Published/Created: 2011
The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. It contains thirteen specially commissioned essays by an international team of historians and literary scholars, a chronology of events and publications, and an extensive guide to further reading. Six essays concentrate on the principal writers of the Revolution controversy: Burke, Paine, Godwin and Wollstonecraft. Others deal with popular radical culture, counter-revolutionary culture, the distinctive contribution of women writers, novels of opinion, drama, and poetry. This volume will serve as a comprehensive yet accessible reference work for students, advanced researchers and scholars.
The Cercle Social, the Girondins, and the French Revolution by Gary Kates
Call Number: DC158.8 .K38 1985
ISBN: 0691054401
Published/Created: 1985
Gary Kates reconstructs the history of the Cercle Social, a group of writers and politicians who wielded considerable influence during the French Revolution and whose pioneering interest in women's rights and land reform made their club one of the most progressive in Revolutionary Paris. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Citoyennes by Annie Smart
Call Number: HQ1613 .S53 2011
ISBN: 9781611493542
Published/Created: 2011
Did women have a civic identity in eighteenth-century France? In Citoyennes: Women and the Ideal of Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century France, Annie Smart contends that they did. While previous scholarship has emphasized the ideal of domestic motherhood or the image of the republican mother, Smart argues persuasively that many pre-revolutionary and revolutionary texts created another ideal for women - the ideal of civic motherhood. Smart asserts that women were portrayed as possessing civic virtue, and as promoting the values and ideals of the public sphere. Contemporary critics have theorized that the eighteenth-century ideal of the Republic intentionally excluded women from the public sphere. According to this perspective, a discourse of "Rousseauean" domestic motherhood stripped women of an active civic identity, and limited their role to breastfeeding and childcare. Eighteenth-century France marked thus the division between a male public sphere of political action and a female private sphere of the home. Citoyennes challenges this position and offers an alternative model of female identity. This interdisciplinary study brings together a variety of genres to demonstrate convincingly that women were portrayed as civic individuals. Using foundational texts such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile, or on Education (1762), revolutionary gouaches of Lesueur, and vaudeville plays of Year II of the Republic (1793/1794), this study brilliantly shows that in text and image, women were represented as devoted to both the public good and their families. In addition, Citoyennes offers an innovative interpretation of the home. Through re-examining sphere theory, this study challenges the tendency to equate the home with private concerns, and shows that the home can function as a site for both private life and civic identity. Citoyennes breaks new ground, for it both rectifies the ideal of domestic Rousseauean motherhood, and brings a fuller understanding to how female civic identity operated in important French texts and images.
Constance de Salm, Her Influence and Her Circle in the Aftermath of the French Revolution by Ellen McNiven Hine
Call Number: DC146.P64 H56 2012
ISBN: 9781433114298
Published/Created: 2011-12-28
Largely forgotten during the second half of the nineteenth century and throughout most of the twentieth century, Constance de Salm (Constance-Marie de Théis, Mme Pipelet de Leury, later Princess de Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck,) finally attracted the attention of such scholars as Elizabeth Colwill, Geneviève Fraisse, Huguette Krief, and Christine Planté in the early twenty-first century. However, there has to date been no comprehensive study of her published works, her vast correspondence, and the importance of her cultural exchanges. In this book, Ellen McNiven Hine contributes to the recent upsurge of interest in the literature of this particularly turbulent period in French history. This book considers not only her literary aspirations and claim to fame but also such topics as her contribution to the scientific culture of the period, the extent of the political involvement of a «non-activist» woman, her challenge to what she saw as inequitable provisions in the Civil Code, her championing of women's progress in literature and the arts, and the role that networking and patronage played in her personal and professional life. Moreover, the study highlights the similarities and differences between her life, writing, and influence and those of other postrevolutionary women such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Germaine de Staël, Margaret Somerville, and Louise Colet. Constance de Salm uses a variety of genres to address issues of particular importance to women, such as equal access to educational opportunities, the cost to women's health of reproduction, and lack of economic resources for single and widowed women. She displays a surprising modernity in her awareness of the difficulty of resolving relationship, career, and motherhood problems that continue to plague women in the twenty-first century and points to a future in which women will have access to educational and employment opportunities.
Dancing to the Precipice by Caroline Moorehead
Call Number: DC146.L3 M66 2009b
ISBN: 9780061684418
Published/Created: 2009
"[A] remarkable biography....Moorehead deftly wields periods detail...to tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the vicissitudes of politics." --Vogue From acclaimed biographer Caroline Moorhead comes Dancing to the Precipice, a sweeping chronicle of the remarkable life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin--"an astute, thoroughly engaging biography of a formidable woman" (Boston Globe) who, over the span of some 80 years, was witness to, and often a participant in the major social upheavals of eighteenth-century French history.
Deviant Women of the French Revolution and the Rise of Feminism by Lisa Beckstrand
Call Number: HQ 1236.B33 2009
ISBN: 9780838641927
Published/Created: 2009
About the Author Lisa Beckstrand holds a PhD in French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently an Academic Planner in the office of Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin System. She has taught undergraduate- and graduate-level French literature and culture and has published articles on authors of the Enlightenment. Her primary research interests include women writers of the eighteenth century and the French Revolution.
Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France by Suzanne Desan (Editor); Jeffrey Merrick (Editor)
Call Number: KJV619 .F36 2009
ISBN: 9780271034690
Published/Created: 2009
The essays in Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France explore how ordinary men and women negotiated power within early modern French households and continually reinvented their families in response to external forces. Larger processes, such as state building, religious reform, changing understandings of gender roles, and economic developments, influenced family practices in the areas of marriage, separation, guardianship, and illegitimacy. Relatives, gender, community, and the law imposed limits upon families but also provided opportunities for agency. Contributors investigate patterns of courtship and decisions about marriage; the financial power exercised by wives; marital conflict and related controversies about gender, sexuality, and social order; death and guardianship; and the legitimization of children born out of wedlock. While addressing a variety of topics, this volume focuses on family members as individuals with complicated agendas and strategies of their own.
The Family and the Nation by Jennifer Ngaire Heuer
Call Number: DC158.8 .H48 2005
ISBN: 0801442869
Published/Created: 2005
The French Revolution transformed the nation's--and eventually the world's--thinking about citizenship, nationality, and gender roles. At the same time, it created fundamental contradictions between citizenship and family as women acquired new rights and duties but remained dependents within the household. In The Family and the Nation, Jennifer Ngaire Heuer examines the meaning of citizenship during and after the revolution and the relationship between citizenship and gender as these ideas and practices were reworked in the late 1790s and early nineteenth century. Heuer argues that tensions between family and nation shaped men's and women's legal and social identities from the Revolution and Terror through the Restoration. She shows the critical importance of relating nationality to political citizenship and of examining the application, not just the creation, of new categories of membership in the nation. Heuer draws on diverse historical sources--from political treatises to police records, immigration reports to court cases--to demonstrate the extent of revolutionary concern over national citizenship. This book casts into relief France's evolving attitudes toward patriotism, immigration, and emigration, and the frequently opposing demands of family ties and citizenship.
The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France by Suzanne Desan
Call Number: HQ 623. D45 2004
ISBN: 0520238591
Published/Created: 2004
In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a social revolution within households and created space for thousands of French women and men to reimagine their most intimate relationships. Families negotiated new social practices, including divorce, the reduction of paternal authority, egalitarian inheritance for sons and daughters alike, and the granting of civil rights to illegitimate children. Contrary to arguments that claim the Revolution bound women within a domestic sphere, The Family on Trial maintains that the new civil laws and gender politics offered many women unexpected opportunities to gain power, property, or independence. The family became a political arena, a practical terrain for creating the Republic in day-to-day life. From 1789, citizens across France--sons and daughters, unhappily married spouses and illegitimate children, pamphleteers and moralists, deputies and judges--all disputed how the family should be reformed to remake the new France. They debated how revolutionary ideals and institutions should transform the emotional bonds, gender dynamics, legal customs, and economic arrangements that structured the family. They asked how to bring the principles of liberty, equality, and regeneration into the home. And as French citizens confronted each other in the home, in court, and in print, they gradually negotiated new domestic practices that balanced Old Regime customs with revolutionary innovations in law and culture. In a narrative that combines national-level analysis with a case study of family contestation in Normandy, Desan explores these struggles to bring politics into households and to envision and put into practice a new set of familial relationships.
The Family Romance of the French Revolution by Lynn A. Hunt
Call Number: DC148 .H86 1992
ISBN: 0520077415
Published/Created: 1992
This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics. "Family Romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and joining one of higher social standing. Lynn Hunt uses the term broadly to describe the images of the familial order underlying revolutionary politics. In a wide-ranging account using novels, engravings, paintings, speeches, newspaper editorials, pornographic writing, and revolutionary legislation about the family, Hunt shows that politics were experienced through the grid of the family romance.
Fashion in the French Revolution by Aileen Ribeiro
Call Number: GT867 .R53 1988
ISBN: 0841911975
Published/Created: 1988
Aileen Ribeiro's book explores the changes in dress during the French Revolution and links them with the rapidly shifting political climate. At a time of immense and violent change, clothing could sometimes be used to demonstrate either conformity or reaction to the prevailing situation. The author looks at the elaborate dress of French society and the court in the 1780s and the way in which plain clothing became identified with "democracy". The part played in the Revolution by the "sans-culottes" with their "bonnet rouge" and "pantalon", is explored, together with the role of militant women and the emergence of feminism. Paintings, engravings and fashion plates provide visual evidence of the clothing of the period. The author has also written "Dress and Morality".
Fashion Victims by Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
Call Number: GT865 .C55 2015
ISBN: 9780300154382
Published/Created: 2015
A thoughtful, lavishly illustrated, and highly readable account of the fabulous French fashion world in the pre-Revolutionary period. This engrossing book chronicles one of the most exciting, controversial, and extravagant periods in the history of fashion: the reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in 18th-century France. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell offers a carefully researched glimpse into the turbulent era's sophisticated and largely female-dominated fashion industry, which produced courtly finery as well as promoted a thriving secondhand clothing market outside the royal circle. She discusses in depth the exceptionally imaginative and uninhibited styles of the period immediately before the French Revolution, and also explores fashion's surprising influence on the course of the Revolution itself. The absorbing narrative demonstrates fashion's crucial role as a visible and versatile medium for social commentary, and shows the glittering surface of 18th-century high society as well as its seedy underbelly. Fashion Victims presents a compelling anthology of trends, manners, and personalities from the era, accompanied by gorgeous fashion plates, portraits, and photographs of rare surviving garments. Drawing upon documentary evidence, previously unpublished archival sources, and new information about aristocrats, politicians, and celebrities, this book is an unmatched study of French fashion in the late 18th century, providing astonishing insight, a gripping story, and stylish inspiration.
France and Women, 1789-1914 by James McMillan; Professor James F. Mcmillan
Call Number: HQ1613 .M38 2000
ISBN: 0415226023
Published/Created: 2000
France and Women, 1789-1914 is the first book to offer an authoritative account of women's history throughout the nineteenth century. James McMillan, author of the seminal work Housewife or Harlot, offers a major reinterpretation of the French past in relation to gender throughout these tumultuous decades of revolution and war. This book provides a challenging discussion of the factors which made French political culture so profoundly sexist and in particular, it shows that many of the myths about progress and emancipation associated with modernization and the coming of mass politics do not stand up to close scrutiny. It also reveals the conservative nature of the republican left and of the ingrained belief throughout french society that women should remain within the domestic sphere. James McMillan considers the role played by French men and women in the politics, culture and society of their country throughout the 1800s.
The French Revolution: A Document Collection by Laura Mason (Editor); Tracey Rizzo (Editor)
Call Number: DC141 .M37 2023
ISBN: 9781647920906
Published/Created: 2023
This new edition of Mason and Rizzo's anthology is a welcome addition to the study of the revolutionary and Napoleonic French Atlantic. It includes a wealth of documents related to life in metropolitan and colonial France from the middle of the eighteenth century through the Napoleonic Consulate as well as concise section overviews that detail experiences on the continent and in Saint-Domingue, France's wealthiest Caribbean colony, during this tumultuous era. These features, along with images, maps, and a detailed timeline, provide an invaluable resource for scholars and students alike. --Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Texas A&M University
The French Revolution in Global Perspective by Suzanne Desan (Editor); Lynn Hunt (Editor); William Max Nelson (Editor)
Call Number: DC157 .F74 2013
ISBN: 9780801450969
Published/Created: 2013
Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of a long history of global commerce, imperial competition, and the movement of people and ideas in places as far flung as India, Egypt, Guiana, and the Caribbean. This international approach helps to explain how the Revolution fused immense idealism with territorial ambition and combined the drive for human rights with various forms of exclusion. The essays examine topics including the role of smuggling and free trade in the origins of the French Revolution, the entwined nature of feminism and abolitionism, and the influence of the French revolutionary wars on the shape of American empire. The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.
Available onsite electronically. Many references to French revolutionary women and the burgeoning movement for women's rights.
French Women and the Age of Enlightenment by Samia I. Spencer (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1149.F8 F73 1984
ISBN: 0253324815
Published/Created: 1984
French Women and the Age of Enlightenment presents a stimulating portrait of women at the most crucial and paradoxical moment in French and world history. Not until the present century have French women been as influential and prolific as they were in the Age of the Enlightenment.
Liberty by Lucy Moore
Call Number: DC158.8 .M64 2007
ISBN: 9780060825263
Published/Created: 2007
"Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights," declared Olympe de Gouges in 1791. Throughout the French Revolution, women, inspired by a longing for liberty and equality, played a vital role in stoking the fervor and idealism of those years. In her compelling history of the Revolution, Lucy Moore paints a vivid portrait of six extraordinary women who risked everything for the chance to exercise their ambition and make their mark on history. At the heart of Paris's intellectual movement, Germaine de Staël was a figure like no other. Passionate, fiercely intelligent and as consumed by love affairs as she was by politics, she helped write the 1791 Constitution at the salon in which she entertained the great thinkers of the age. At the other end of the social scale, her working-class counterparts patrolled the streets of Paris with pistols in their belts. Théroigne de Méricourt was an unhappy courtesan when she fell in love with revolutionary ideals. Denied a political role because of her sex, she nevertheless campaigned tirelessly until a mob beating left her broken in both mind and body. Later came the glittering merveilleuses, whose glamour, beauty and propensity for revealing outfits propelled them to the top of post-revolutionary society. Exuberant, decadent Thérésia Tallien reportedly helped engineer Robespierre's downfall. In so doing, she and her fellow "sans-chemises" ushered in a new world that combined sexual license with the amorality of the new Republic. Historical Fiction.
Literate Women and the French Revolution of 1789 by Catherine R. Montfort (Editor)
Call Number: DC 33.5.L69 1994
ISBN: 188347907X
Published/Created: 1995
This collection of essays analyzes certain of the forms in which literate women expressed their reactions to the 1789 Revolution--forms structured by their experiences, writings, and interpretation of events. Some of the questions addressed are: Were literate women passive onlookers or active participants in the revolutionary drama? What was their attitude towards domesticity and the emerging ideology of separate spheres for men and women? What methods, ploys, and channels were used by these women to counteract the dominant role of men in society? How as the Revolution inscribed in post-revolutionary nineteenth-century women's texts? Was there a gendered response by women to the events of 1789 and their aftermath? Among the women discussed in this collection are Charlotte Corday, Olympe de Gouges, Mme Roland, Mme de Stael, Isabelle de Charrier, and George Sand. This book amply illustrates how the seeds of feminine discontent and rebellion of the early nineteenth century were sown during the turbulent years of the revolutionary period.
Marianne into Battle by Maurice Agulhon; Janet Lloyd (Translator)
Call Number: N6847 .A3813
ISBN: 0521235774
Published/Created: 1981
Translation of Marianne au combat. Explores the French emblem of Marianne in art, symbolism, allegories and the role of art in politics. Explores not only the 1789 Revolution but the Paris Commune of 1871 and other uprisings.
Marriage and Revolution by Siân Reynolds
ISBN: 9780199560424
Published/Created: 2012
Marriage and Revolution is a double biography of Jean-Marie Roland (1734-1793) and Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, later Madame Roland (1754-1793), leading figures in the French Revolution. J.-M. Roland was minister of the Interior for a total of eight months during 1792. The couple were close toBrissot and the Girondins, and both died during the Terror. Mme Roland became famous for her posthumous prison memoirs and is the subject of many biographies, but her husband, despite being a key figure in administration of France, seldom out of the limelight during his time in office, is oftenmarginalized in histories of the Revolution.Sian Reynolds examines the Roland marriage from its beginnings in an ancien regime mesalliance, opposed by both families, through its close cooperation in the 1780s, to its final phase as a political partnership during the Revolution. Both Roland's actions as minister and Mme Roland's role as awoman close to power were praised and blamed at the time, and the controversies have persisted. Based on manuscript sources including many unpublished letters, Marriage and Revolution sets out to examine an unusually companionate marriage over the long term: its intimacy, parenthood, everyday lifein the provinces, friendships, academic cooperation, political enthusiasms and quarrels, and finally its dramatic ending during the Revolution.
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Beginnings of Female Emancipation in France and England by Jacob Bouten
Call Number: HQ 1150.B6 1975
ISBN: 0879916087
Published/Created: 1975
Reprint of 1922 publication which was originally the author's thesis. Excerpt: The history of the Emancipation of Women is the long and varied record of their slow and gradual liberation from that utter subjec tion to Man in which various circumstances beyond their control among which the physical superiority of the latter, a form of male supremacy which has seldom been called into question, was probably the most prominent had combined to place them. It relates how in the course of centuries either with the support of a certain portion of the Opposite sex or relying upon their own te sources they strove to cast off the shackles which bound and degraded them, and to acquire that degree of physical, intellectual and moral freedom to which they felt themselves entitled.
Minerva's French Sisters by Nina Rattner Gelbart
Call Number: Q130 .G42 2021
ISBN: 9780300252569
Published/Created: 2021
This book presents the stories of six intrepid women of science in eighteenth-century France whose lives and accomplishments--though celebrated in their lifetimes--have been largely written out of the history of their period: mathematician and philosopher Elisabeth Ferrand, astronomer Nicole Reine Lepaute, field naturalist Jeanne Barret, garden botanist and illustrator Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, anatomist and inventor Marie-Marguerite Biheron, and chemist Geneviève d'Arconville. By adjusting our lens we can find them. In a society where science was not yet an established profession for men, much less women, these six audacious and inspiring figures made their mark on their respective fields of science and on Enlightenment society, as they defied gender expectations and conventional norms. Their boldness and contributions to science were appreciated by such luminaries as Franklin, the philosophes, and many European monarchs. The book is written in an unorthodox style to match the women's breaking of boundaries.
Nine Women Drawn from the Epoch of the French Revoltuion by Galina Sokolnikova
Call Number: DC145 .S413
Published/Created: 1969
This is a translation of Zhenshchiny ėpockhi frant︠s︡uzskoĭ revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii. Contains biographies on Théroigne de Méricourt, Charlotte Corday, Manon Roland, Madame du Barry, Claire Lacombe, Lucile Desmoulins, Elisabeth Lebas, Madame Tallien, and Joséphine Bonaparte.
The Origins of the Welfare State by Lisa DiCaprio
Call Number: DC 158.8.D55 2007
ISBN: 0252030214
Published/Created: 2007
In May 1790, the French National Assembly created spinning workshops (ateliers de filature) for thousands of unemployed women in Paris. These ateliers disclose new aspects of the process which transformed Old Regime charity into revolutionary welfare initiatives characterized by secularization, centralization, and entitlements based on citizenship. This study is the first to examine women and the welfare state in its formative period at a time when modern concepts of human rights were elaborated. In The Origins of the Welfare State, Lisa DiCaprio reveals how the women working in the ateliers, municipal welfare officials, and the national government vied to define the meaning of revolutionary welfare throughout the Revolution. Presenting demands for improved wages and working conditions to a wide array of revolutionary officials, the women workers exercised their rights as "passive citizens" capaciously and shaped the meanings of work, welfare, and citizenship. Looking backward to the Old Regime and forward to the nineteenth century, this study explores the interventionist spirit that characterized liberalism in the eighteenth century and serves as a bridge to the history of entitlements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Out of the Shadows by Shirley Roessler
Call Number: DC 158.8.E57 1996
ISBN: 0820425656
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"Out of the Shadows demonstrates the importance of the role of women in the French Revolution. It traces the growth of female political awareness and depicts the determination of women of the working class to participate in the life of the new nation despite their government's obstinate denial of the rights of citizenship. The author examines in detail the grassroots involvement of women in the affairs of the country right up until the avalanche of repressive legislation passed in the spring of 1795."
Paris Fashion by Valerie Steele
Call Number: GT887 .S74 2017b
ISBN: 9781635570892
Published/Created: 2017
Written by renowned fashion historian, curator, and director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Valerie Steele, this beautifully illustrated new edition of Paris Fashion examines the history and culture of style in the fashion capital from the 14th century through to the present day. There is a wealth of information on Revolutionary women's fashion and the important role that fashion played in politics. Paris has been the international capital of fashion for more than 300 years. Even before the rise of the haute couture, Parisians were notorious for their obsession with fashion, and foreigners eagerly followed their lead. From Charles Frederick Worth to Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent, fashion history is dominated by the names of Parisian couturiers. But Valerie Steele's Paris Fashion is much more than just a history of great designers. This fascinating book demonstrates that the success of Paris ultimately rests on the strength of its fashion culture - created by a host of fashion performers and spectators, including actresses, dandies, milliners, artists, and writers. First published in 1988 to great international acclaim, this pioneering book has now been completely revised and brought up to date, encompassing the rise of fashion's multiple world cities in the 21st century. Lavishly illustrated, deeply learned, and elegantly written, Valerie Steele's masterwork explores with brilliance and flair why Paris remains the capital of fashion.
Passionate Exiles by Maurice Levaillant
Call Number: PQ2431 .L43 1971
ISBN: 0836980867
Published/Created: 1977
Translation of Une amitié amoureuse by Malcolm Barnes. Table of Contents: Two Women; Defiance of the Master of France; Italian Interlude; Dear Prosper; In the Groves of Vincelles; The Misfortunes of Juliette; The Lost Paradise; The Great Days of Coppet; Prince Charming; Renunciation and Despair; Benjamin's Secret Marriage; Anxieties and Mysticism; Three Hearts in a Labyrinth; Melodrama at Sécheron; Sentimental Imbroglio; Coppet-sur-Loire; The Last Illusions; Suppression of the Book on Germany; Return to Léman; "To Love is Divine"; The Prefect-Gendarme; The Proscription of Madame Récamier; The Recluse of Châlons; The Great Departure; The Mad Passion of Auguste de Staël; In the Shadow of Death; Epilogue; Appendices. Bibliography: p. 351-354.
Biography index reprint series
Political Ideas of Enlightenment Women by Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt; Paul Gibbard; Karen Green
Call Number: HQ1587 .P64 2013
ISBN: 9781472409539
Published/Created: 2013
This edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment, and presents an alternative to the male-authored canon of philosophy and political thought. Over the course of the eighteenth century increasing numbers of women went into print, and they exploited both new and traditional forms to convey their political ideas: from plays, poems, and novels to essays, journalism, annotated translations, and household manuals, as well as dedicated political tracts. Recently, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women's literary writing and their role in salon society, but their participation in political debates is less well studied. This volume offers new perspectives on some better known authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Catharine Macaulay, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, as well as neglected figures from the British Isles and continental Europe. The collection advances discussion of how best to understand women's political contributions during the period, the place of salon sociability in the political development of Europe, and the interaction between discourses on slavery and those on women's rights. It will interest scholars and researchers working in women's intellectual history and Enlightenment thought and serve as a useful adjunct to courses in political theory, women's studies, the history of feminism, and European history.
Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution by Lynn A. Hunt
Call Number: DC158.8 .H86 1984
ISBN: 0520052048
Published/Created: 1984
When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. In a new preface to this twentieth-anniversary edition, Hunt reconsiders her work in the light of the past twenty years' scholarship. Lynn Hunt is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Family Romance of the French Revolution (California, 1992).
Princesses, ladies & republicaines of the terror by Térèse Louis Latour
Call Number: DC145 .L37
Published/Created: 1930
This work discusses in detail the lives of many women in the Revolution. Chapters in order: Marie Antoinette-Unhappy Queen, Forgotten and Unknown Women of the Revolution, The Princesse de Lamballe, Charlotte Corday d'Armont, Madame Roland, Anne-Josèphe Terwagne, known as Théroigne de Méricourt, The Mystery of the Child in the Temple, Lucille Desmoulins and Gabrielle Danton, Two Active "Républicaines": Olympe de Gouge and Claire-Rose Lacombe, Madame Elizabeth Sister of Louis XVI, The Holocaust of Robespierre, The Devotees of Robespierre, Madame Tallien, Madame de Talleyrand, Pauline de Montmorin, and Delphine de Sabran. There is an extensive bibliography.
Publishing and Readership in Revolutionary France and America by Carol Armbruster
Call Number: Z305 .P78 1993
ISBN: 0313287937
Published/Created: 1993
This volume presents a comparative framework in which to study the history of publishing and reading in Europe and North America during the eighteenth century. The chapters are written by leading French and American specialists in publishing during the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary eras. The book synthesizes current knowledge in the field and advances scholarship, particularly with respect to copyright legislation. It skillfully integrates the history of publishing during this period with the larger field of eighteenth-century intellectual and cultural history. The chapters are grouped in four sections devoted to publishing as a profession, publishing and the law, readership, and the collection and use of materials. Each broad area is addressed by both specialists from France and America to create a comparative context. The chapters address more particular topics from the perspectives of social, economic, and cultural history; literary criticism; law; and library history. The comparative framework yields new insights into the political cultures of eighteenth-century France and America and into the relationship of print media and political culture.

This monograph was based on the proceedings of a 1989 international symposium sponsored by the Center for the Book and the European Division at the Library of Congress. The symposium was organized to commemorate the bicentenary of the French revolution, to recognize the work of scholars and other specialists in France and the United States who are studying the history of publishing and reading, and to contribute to the development of a comparative methodology in the international study of book history. The book includes papers from three French (Roger Chartier, Henri-Jean Martin, Daniel Roche) and nine American scholars. The Americans are: Robert Darnton, James Gilreath of LC's Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Jane C. Ginsburg, David Hall, Carla Hesse, Lynn Hunt, Marcus A. McCorison, Michael Warner, and Larzer Ziff. Carol Armbruster wrote the introduction and John Y. Cole contributed the foreword.
Queen of Fashion by Caroline Weber
Call Number: GT865 .W37 2006
ISBN: 0805079491
Published/Created: 2006
In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France. Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress," covering each phase of the queen's tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl, struggling to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour (twelve-foot-wide hoopskirts, whalebone corsets that crushed her organs). As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt "unqueenly" outfits (the provocative chemise) that, surprisingly, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her. Weber's queen is sublime, human, and surprising: a sometimes courageous monarch unwilling to allow others to determine her destiny. The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion--the vehicle she used to secure her triumphs--was also the means of her undoing. Weber's book is not only a stylish and original addition to Marie Antoinette scholarship, but also a moving, revelatory reinterpretation of one of history's most controversial figures.
Reason's Muse by Genevieve Fraisse; Jane Marie Todd (Translator)
Call Number: HQ1613 .F6813 1994
ISBN: 0226259692
Published/Created: 1994
The French Revolution proclaimed the equality of all human beings, yet women remained less than equal in the new society. The exclusion of women at the birth of modern democracy required considerable justification, and by tracing the course of this reasoning through early nineteenth-century texts, Genevieve Fraisse maps a moment of crisis in the history of sexual difference. Through an analysis of literary, religious, legal, philosophical, and medical texts, Fraisse links a range of positions on women's proper role in society to specific historical and rhetorical circumstances. She shows how the Revolution marked a sharp break in the way women were represented in language, as traditional bantering about the "war of the sexes" gave way to serious discussions of the political and social meanings of sexual difference. Following this discussion on three different planes--the economical, the political, and the biological--Fraisse looks at the exclusion of women against the backdrop of democracy's inevitable lie: the affirmation of an equality so abstract it was impossible to concretely apply. This study of the place of sexual equality in the founding moment of democracy offers insight into a persistent question: whether female emancipation is to be found through the achievement of equality with men or in the celebration of female difference.
Rebel Daughters by Sara E. Melzer (Editor); Leslie W. Rabine (Editor)
Call Number: DC 158.8.R44 1992
ISBN: 0195068866
Published/Created: 1992
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the important and paradoxical relation between women and the French Revolution. Although the male leaders of the Revolution depended on the women's active militant participation, they denied to women the rights they helped to establish. At the same time that women were banned from the political sphere, "woman" was transformed into an allegorical figure which became the very symbol of (masculine) Liberty and Equality. This volume analyzes how the revolutionary process constructed a new gender system at the foundation of modern liberal culture.
Reclaiming the Sacred by Suzanne Desan; David Laitin (Editor)
Call Number: BL875.F8 D47 1990
ISBN: 0801424046
Published/Created: 1991
"This is a carefully crafted piece of social history that broadly revises widely held preconceptions about ideological currents in the French Revolution. The issues it raises go beyond those that might appeal only to specialists in communal action and religion; historical sociologists and sociologists of culture will also find this to be an important and provocative study."--American Journal of Sociology
Reimagining Liberation by Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel
Call Number: HQ1163
ISBN: 9780252042935
Published/Created: 2019
Black women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. Thinkers and activists, these women lived lives of commitment and risk that landed them in war zones and concentration camps and saw them declared enemies of the state. Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel mines published writings and untapped archives to reveal the anticolonialist endeavors of seven women. Though often overlooked today, Suzanne Césaire, Paulette Nardal, Eugénie Éboué-Tell, Jane Vialle, Andrée Blouin, Aoua Kéita, and Eslanda Robeson took part in a forceful transnational movement. Their activism and thought challenged France's imperial system by shaping forms of citizenship that encouraged multiple cultural and racial identities. Expanding the possibilities of belonging beyond national and even Francophone borders, these women imagined new pan-African and pan-Caribbean identities informed by black feminist intellectual frameworks and practices. The visions they articulated also shifted the idea of citizenship itself, replacing a single form of collective identity and political participation with an expansive plurality of forms of belonging.
The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson
Call Number: PS3607.U5473 R48 2018
ISBN: 0822237687
Published/Created: 2018
This is a play, not a work of scholarship. Four beautiful badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It's a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection ... that ends in a song and a scaffold -- Back cover.
Note: Marianne Angelle is a composite of the free black women revolutionaries of the island nation of Saint Domingue (Haiti).
The Rights of Women by Olympe de Gouges
Call Number: HQ1236 .G5813 1989
Published/Created: 1989
Translation by Val Stevenson of Les Droits de la femme. Originally published in 1791 in Paris. Olympe de Gouges was a French feminist and activist during the French Revolution, a time of great change and yet such things were still radical. Her text, The Declaration of the Rights of Women and of the Female Citizen was written in response to the French constitution of 1791 to address the key issues for women's rights that it had failed to cover. Over 200 years later and Gouges's arguments still remain relevant today.
Teaching Representations of the French Revolution by Julia V. Douthwaite (Editor); Antoinette Sol (Editor); Catriona Seth (Editor)
Call Number: DC148 .T3735 2019
ISBN: 9781603294652
Published/Created: 2019
In many ways the French Revolution--a series of revolutions, in fact, whose end has arguably not yet arrived--is modernity in action. Beginning in reform, it blossomed into wholesale attempts to remake society, uprooting the clergy and aristocracy, valorizing mass movements, and setting secular ideologies, including nationalism, in motion. Unusually manifold and complicated, the revolution affords many teaching opportunities and challenges. This volume helps instructors seeking to connect developments today--terrorism, propaganda, extremism--with the events that began in 1789, contextualizing for students a world that seems always unmoored and in crisis. The volume supports the teaching of the revolution's ongoing project across geographic areas (from Haiti, Latin America, and New Orleans to Spain, Germany, and Greece), governing ideologies (human rights, secularism, liberty), and literatures (from well-known to newly rediscovered texts). Interdisciplinary, intercultural, and insurgent, the volume has an energy that reflects its subject.
Through the Reading Glass by Suellen Diaconoff
Call Number: PQ265 .D523 2005
ISBN: 0791464210
Published/Created: 2005
Argues that women's relationship to books and their promotion of reading contributed greatly to the cultural and intellectual vitality of the Enlightenment. Highlights many women of the period.
Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions by Lisa L. Moore (Editor); Joanna Brooks (Editor); Caroline Wigginton (Editor)
Call Number: PR113 .T73 2012
ISBN: 9780199743483
Published/Created: 2012
While not focused on French women, Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions restores a lost chapter in the history of feminism and illuminates the complexity of the rights debates of the eighteenth century. As the English language followed the routes of trade and colonialism to become the lingua franca of much of the Atlantic world, women who experienced dispossession and violence on the one hand, and new freedoms and opportunities on the other, wrote about their experiences. English, Scots and Irish women; colonists and indigenous women; Loyalists and Patriots; religious leaders and scandal-dogged actresses; slaves and free women of color - this anthology puts all these eighteenth-century voices in conversation with one another in an unprecedented archive of primary sources that will become indispensable to students and scholars of the eighteenth century in English, history, and women's and gender studies.
Translating Slavery by Doris Y. Kadish (Editor); Françoise Massardier-Kenney (Editor)
Call Number: PQ288 .T73 1994
ISBN: 0873384989
Published/Created: 1994
This study explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender and race. Appendixes contain selected French texts by Olympe de Gouges, Germaine de Staël, and Claire de Duras. It focuses on anti-slavery writing by French women during the revolutionary period, when a number of them spoke out against the oppression of slaves and women."
Twilight of the Goddesses by Madelyn Gutwirth
Call Number: DC 158.8.G88 1992
ISBN: 0813517990
Published/Created: 1994
"In this extraordinarily rich book, Madelyn Gutwirth examines over one hundred prints and paintings, dozens of texts, and the work of a great many cultural critics in order to consider how gender politics were played out during a highly volatile era. Finding evidence of a crisis in gender relations during the eighteenth century, she traces its evolution in the politics of rococo art, demographic trends, plans for the control of prostitution, maternal nursing and wet-nursing practices, folklore, the salon, and in the theater of Diderot and the polemics of Rousseau." "Gutwirth shows how a hostile gender ideology consigned women to a solely mothering role before the political revolution began, and how women who struggled to participate in the nascent First French Republic found themselves hobbled by the representational practices of the revolutionaries, especially their use of allegory. The artificiality and anachronism of the Revolution's representation of women were ratified by the Napoleonic Code. Once depicted as erotic goddesses by the rococo, then as goddesses of liberty (Marianne), the dominant figuration of women around 1800 would become the dying waif. As modern republics began their struggle toward legitimacy, women's posture within them had been reduced, by representation, to feeble marginality." "Gutwirth combines perspectives from literature, history, sociology, demography, psychology, and art history and criticism in her delineation of this crisis."
Unruly Women of Paris by Gay L. Gullickson
Call Number: DC317 .G85 1996
ISBN: 0801432286
Published/Created: 1996
Although this book is focused on women in the Paris Commune of 1871, it is a valuable resource for making comparisons between the two eras in French history. In this vividly written and amply illustrated book, Gay L. Gullickson analyzes the representations of women who were part of the insurrection known as the Paris Commune. The uprising and its bloody suppression by the French army is still one of the most hotly debated episodes in modern history. Especially controversial was the role played by women, whose prominent place among the Communards shocked many commentators and spawned the legend of the pétroleuses, women who were accused of burning the city during the battle that ended the Commune. In the midst of the turmoil that shook Paris, the media distinguished women for their cruelty and rage. The Paris-Journal, for example, raved: "Madness seems to possess them; one sees them, their hair down like furies, throwing boiling oil, furniture, paving stones, on the soldiers." Gullickson explores the significance of the images created by journalists, memoirists, and political commentators, and elaborated by latter-day historians and political thinkers. The pétroleuse is the most notorious figure to emerge from the Commune, but the literature depicts the Communardes in other guises, too: the innocent victim, the scandalous orator, the Amazon warrior, and the ministering angel, among others. Gullickson argues that these caricatures played an important role in conveying and evoking moral condemnation of the Commune. More important, they reveal the gender conceptualizations that structured, limited, and assigned meaning to women as political actors for the balance of the nineteenth and well into the twentieth century.
Wicked Flesh by Jessica Marie Johnson
Call Number: F379.N59 N44427 2020
ISBN: 9780812252385
Published/Created: 2020
The story of freedom pivots on the choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. The story of freedom and all of its ambiguities begins with intimate acts steeped in power. It is shaped by the peculiar oppressions faced by African women and women of African descent. And it pivots on the self-conscious choices black women made to retain control over their bodies and selves, their loved ones, and their futures. Slavery's rise in the Americas was institutional, carnal, and reproductive. The intimacy of bondage whet the appetites of slaveowners, traders, and colonial officials with fantasies of domination that trickled into every social relationship--husband and wife, sovereign and subject, master and laborer. Intimacy--corporeal, carnal, quotidian--tied slaves to slaveowners, women of African descent and their children to European and African men. In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world. Johnson draws on archival documents scattered in institutions across three continents, written in multiple languages and largely from the perspective of colonial officials and slave-owning men, to recreate black women's experiences from coastal Senegal to French Saint-Domingue to Spanish Cuba to the swampy outposts of the Gulf Coast. Centering New Orleans as the quintessential site for investigating black women's practices of freedom in the Atlantic world, Wicked Flesh argues that African women and women of African descent endowed free status with meaning through active, aggressive, and sometimes unsuccessful intimate and kinship practices. Their stories, in both their successes and their failures, outline a practice of freedom that laid the groundwork for the emancipation struggles of the nineteenth century and reshaped the New World.
Women's Rights and the French Revolution by Sophie Mousset
Call Number: HQ 1615.G68 M6813 2007
ISBN: 1412854636
Published/Created: 2014
Women played a major part in the French Revolution of 1789, but have received very little recognition for their contributions. The many claims and protests put forth by women at that time were suppressed, women's clubs were banned, and Olympe de Gouges, a leading contemporary advocate for women's rights, was silenced and has since remained an obscure figure. This book is the first biography of this astonishing woman. After boldly publishing her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen in 1791, de Gouges was sent to the guillotine for having had the courage to mount the rostrum on behalf of women. Unlike many who have captured posterity's attention, de Gouges had great sympathy but no indulgence for her sex. Instead of considering her female colleagues as eternal victims, she understood that they were to some extent responsible for their misfortunes, and that if they united and devoted themselves to changing their image, they could become great. De Gouges called for the advent of a new woman, one who would relinquish the "nocturnal administering" of men. Olympe de Gouges rightly deserves the title of pioneer, prophet, and heroine. This long-overdue biography pays her due homage. It will be of interest to students of the French Revolution, women's studies, and biography.
Women's Vices, Public Benefits:Women and Commerce in the French Enlightenment by Tjitske Akkerman
Call Number: HQ 1613.A72 1992
ISBN: 9073052327
Published/Created: 1992
Tjitske Akkerman is a researcher affiliated with the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, where she specializes in political comparative research. The main focus of her research is on comparative analyses of the ideologies, electoral successes, strategies, and policy impacts of radical populist parties in Western Europe.
Women, Equality, and the French Revolution by Candice Proctor
Call Number: HQ1613 .P76 1990
ISBN: 031327245X
Published/Created: 1990
This volume represents the first book-length study of attitudes toward women in revolutionary France. Based on extensive research in the libraries and archives of Paris, the book examines the impact of the Revolution's ideology of liberty and equality. When the men of 1789 wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they were thinking in terms of man the male, not man the species. But there were some men and women who interpreted it in terms of all humanity. The outrage of these individuals over what they perceived as a discrepancy between the principles and the practice of the Revolution motivated them to produce some of the most unhesitating declarations of sexual equality that had ever been seen in history. Dr. Proctor demonstrates, however, these claims of equality were not simply ignored; they were categorically rejected by the mainstream revolutionaries. The book examines the typical 18th-century concept of women as alien and in some ways inferior beings and traces the striking continuity between pre-Revolutionary and Revolutionary thought on the subject. Against this background, Proctor addresses a number of important questions: How widespread was the support for a movement in favor of sexual equality? What was the response of the Revolution itself to demands for equal rights for women? How did the men of the French Revolution justify the contradiction between their suppression of women and the ideologies for which they claimed to be fighting? To arrive at the answers, an abundance of material produced in France in the 18th century is identified and analyzed, and cited in an extensive bibliography of original sources. What finally emerges is not only a clearer picture of the French Revolution and its attitude toward women, but a deeper understanding of the ambivalent attitudes toward women that still affect our society today. This book will be an important resource for courses in European history, the French Revolution, and women's studies, as well as a valuable reference for college, university, and public libraries.
Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution by Olwen H. Hufton
Call Number: DC 158.8.H84 1992
ISBN: 0802058981
Published/Created: 1999
The French masses overwhelmingly supported the Revolution in 1789. Economic hardship, hunger, and debt combined to put them solidly behind the leaders. But between the people's expectations and the politicians' interpretation of what was needed to construct a new state lay a vast chasm. Olwen H. Hufton explores the responses of two groups of working women – those in rural areas and those in Paris – to the revolution's aftermath. Women were denied citizenship in the new state, but they were not apolitical. In Paris, collective female activity promoted a controlled economy as women struggled to secure an adequate supply of bread at a reasonable price. Rural women engaged in collective confrontation to undermine government religious policy which was destroying the networks of traditional Catholic charity. Hufton examines the motivations of these two groups, the strategies they used to advance their respective causes, and the bitter misogyinistic legacy of the republican tradition which persisted into the twentieth century.
Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution by Joan B. Landes
Call Number: HQ 1391.F7 L36 1988
ISBN: 0801421411
Published/Created: 1988
In this provocative interdisciplinary essay, Joan B. Landes examines the impact on women of the emergence of a new, bourgeois organization of public life in the eighteenth century. She focuses on France, contrasting the role and representation of women under the Old Regime with their status during and after the Revolution. Basing her work on a wide reading of current historical scholarship, Landes draws on the work of Habermas and his followers, as well as on recent theories of representation, to re-create public-sphere theory from a feminist point of view. Within the extremely personal and patriarchal political culture of Old Regime France, elite women wielded surprising influence and power, both in the court and in salons. Urban women of the artisanal class often worked side by side with men and participated in many public functions. But the Revolution, Landes asserts, relegated women to the home, and created a rigidly gendered, essentially male, bourgeois public sphere. The formal adoption of "universal" rights actually silenced public women by emphasizing bourgeois conceptions of domestic virtue. In the first part of this book, Landes links the change in women's roles to a shift in systems of cultural representation. Under the absolute monarchy of the Old Regime, political culture was represented by the personalized iconic imagery of the father/king. This imagery gave way in bourgeois thought to a more symbolic system of representation based on speech, writing, and the law. Landes traces this change through the art and writing of the period. Using the works of Rousseau and Montesquieu as examples of the passage to the bourgeois theory of the public sphere, she shows how such concepts as universal reason, law, and nature were rooted in an ideologically sanctioned order of gender difference and separate public and private spheres. In the second part of the book, Landes discusses the discourses on women's rights and on women in society authored by Condorcet, Wollstonecraft, Gouges, Tristan, and Comte within the context of these new definitions of the public sphere. Focusing on the period after the execution of the king, she asks who got to be included as "the People" when men and women demanded that liberal and republican principles be carried to their logical conclusion. She examines women's roles in the revolutionary process and relates the birth of modern feminism to the silencing of the politically influential women of the Old Regime court and salon and to women's expulsion from public participation during and after the Revolution.
Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795 by Darline G. Levy
Call Number: HQ1616 .W65
ISBN: 0252004094
Published/Created: 1979
This is an incomparable resource for students of the French Revolution-especially if they do not read French well. The editors have uncovered and translated 60 primary sources from the Revolution, including records of arrests and interrogations, correspondence and trial records, minutes from meetings of political clubs, pamphlets, petitions, and newspaper articles. There is also a thorough index of women of the Revolution including not only the more famous figures, but also the lesser-known individuals such as Audu, Léon and Lacombe. Each document is provided with an introduction and historical notes. The material is divided into six chronological sections each with a prefatory description of its defining historical events. Preview of first 60 pages available on google books (see Digital Resources). Serves as a good complement to Dominique Godineau's The Women of Paris and their French Revolution.
The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution by Dominique Godineau; Katherine Streip (Translator)
Call Number: DC731 .G6313 1998
ISBN: 0520067185
Published/Created: 1998
A translation of the seminal French study on working class Parisienne women, Citoyennes tricoteuses : les femmes du peuple à Paris pendant la Révolution française. During the French Revolution, hundreds of domestic and working-class women of Paris were interrogated, examined, accused, denounced, arrested, and imprisoned for their rebellious and often hostile behavior. Here, for the first time in English translation, Dominique Godineau offers an illuminating account of these female revolutionaries. As nurturing and tender as they are belligerent and contentious, these are not singular female heroines but the collective common women who struggled for bare subsistence by working in factories, in shops, on the streets, and on the home front while still finding time to participate in national assemblies, activist gatherings, and public demonstrations in their fight for the recognition of women as citizens within a burgeoning democracy. Relying on exhaustive research in historical archives, police accounts, and demographic resources at specific moments of the Revolutionary period, Godineau describes the private and public lives of these women within their precise political, social, historical, and gender-specific contexts. Her insightful and engaging observations shed new light on the importance of women as instigators, activists, militants, and decisive revolutionary individuals in the crafting and rechartering of their political and social roles as female citizens within the New Republic.
Women of the French Revolution by Linda Kelly
Call Number: DC 158.8.K45 1987
ISBN: 0241121124
Published/Created: 1988
On may 4, 1789, Madame de Stael, daughter of the finance minister Jacques Necker, watched the opening procession of the States General. Seven years later, on the eve of his departure for Italy and glory, Josephine de Bauharnais married the young Napoleon Bonaparte. Between these two dates the French Revolution had run its course. At every stage, women, whether as witnesses or participants, were closely associated with its main events. Their experiences, recorded in the letters and memoirs of the day, give a fresh slant on the revolution's often told story and incidentally cast a light on women's lot in general at the time.
Women of the French Revolution by Thomas Streissguth
Call Number: DC 158.8.S87 2005
ISBN: 1590184726
Published/Created: 2005
Fulfills the standards: "Time, Continuity, and Change," "Individual Development and Identity," "Individuals, Groups, and Institutions," "Power, Authority, and Governance," and "Production, Distribution, and Consumption," from the National Council for the Social Studies Curriculum Standards for Middle School. Fulfills the standards: "Chronological Thinking," "Historical Comprehension," "Historical Analysis and Interpretation," "Historical Research Capabilities," and "Historical Issues Analysis and Decision Making" from the National History education Standards for Grades 5-12. Fulfills the standards, "Read texts to build an understanding of texts, themselves, and the culture of the U.S." and "Read from many periods to build an understanding of human experience" from the National English Education Standards for Middle School.
Women of the Revolutionary Era, or some who Stirred France by Andrew Haggard
Call Number: DC 36.2.H23
Published/Created: 1914
Sequel to Remarkable women of France. Available in full text from HathiTrust
Writing the Revolution by Lindsay A. H. Parker
Call Number: DC146.J77 P37 2013
ISBN: 9780199931026
Published/Created: 2013
Writing the Revolution is a microhistory of a middle-class Parisian woman, Rosalie Jullien, whose nearly 1,000 familiar letters have never before been studied. The Jullien name is not new to histories of the French Revolution. Rosalie's son, Marc-Antoine, known in the family as Jules, was closely connected to the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. However, despite being the wife and mother of revolutionary elites, Rosalie led a private life. Connected to the Revolution in very personal ways, she was also distanced from the lime light because of her gender and her proclivity for modesty. Her correspondence allows readers to enter her private world and see the intellectual, emotional, and familial life of a revolutionary in all of its complexity. The prevailing thesis in the field holds that the revolutionary elite constructed the New Regime against women, effectively excluding them from the political sphere, although nearly every existing study of women has approached the subject through oblique sources and mostly male voices. Rosalie Jullien's long missives to her husband and son, however, document her relationship to politics as she explained it. Despite never seeking a public role, Rosalie developed a political identity that included a revolutionized understanding of womanhood. Writing the Revolution builds on the innovative scholarship on the history of the family during the Revolution and demonstrates how the family sphere was revolutionized even in cases where the wife maintained a traditional family role. Jullien's correspondence boasts many values as an artifact of the Revolutionary experience, of women's lives, and of epistolary culture. Rosalie demonstrates the individual's experience within the evolving structures of a modernizing state, family, and gender identity. The period covered spans from 1775 to 1810. A portrayal of Rosalie's early married life, and the decade she spent with her husband and children in a small town north of Grenoble, begins the book, and is followed by a chapter on the couple's reading practices and their views toward religion prior to the Revolution. The heart of the research focuses on Rosalie's life and experiences in Revolutionary Paris and her decision, in the aftermath of the Terror, to emphasize private, domestic life over politics.
Zuka: The French Revolution through American eyes: A Woman's Place is Public Space by Zuka
Call Number: N6537.Z85 A4 1988
Published/Created: 1988
This is an exhibition catalog of Zuka's 1988 show at the Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France. Art historian Linda Nochlin writes the catalog essay. Zuka was an American-born artist of Russian decent who lived in Paris. Her take on French Revolution is modernist and bold. She focuses almost exclusively on women and their place in the history of this time. Her work is mostly collage, oils, and painted cutouts sometimes in combination. A ground-breaking exhibition by a feminist artist and historian.

Amazones de la Révolution: des femmes dans la tourmente de 1789 by Martial Poirson
Call Number: DC158.8 .A44 2016
Published/Created: 2016
Poissard, female soldier, rioter, arsonist, criminal, insane... These stereotypes outline the portrait of the revolutionary fighter, usurping attributes of masculinity and codes of virility. They conceal the abuses committed against women designated as scapegoats and contribute to ousting them from the public sphere. Objects, works and archives which attest to this reveal the fantasies generated by women's violence, while highlighting their contemporary echoes. In a context where gender considerations are making a comeback, this book explores the gray areas of historiography and the presuppositions of the "national novel", highlighting the involvement of women - victims or executioners - in the brutality of events. . While making room for exceptional women such as Charlotte Corday, Olympe de Gouges, Théroigne de Méricourt or Manon Roland, it puts into perspective the collective figures of the Revolution as well as the counter-revolution. From the Knitters to the Merveilleuses, from the insurgents to the tortured, from allegories to caricatures, all have permeated culture through the centuries, as much in engraving, painting, sculpture or decorative arts as in cinema, video games, comics or advertising. This work is published on the occasion of the exhibition presented at the Lambiner museum in Versailles.This is an exhibition catalog from Versailles' Lambinet Museum (exhibit from November 5, 2016-to February 19th, 2017). It presents many of the lesser known women who played a role in the Revolution of 1789- femme-soldat, poissarde (market woman), rioter. It explores the relationship these women had to revolution and counter-revolution and how their aims for emancipation were ultimately thwarted. It grants new visibility to the variety and motives of women during this time. Curated by Martial Poirson. [Amazons of the Revolution: Women in Torment] [Unofficial translation from publisher]
Ces Belles Inconnues de la Révolution by Juliette Benzoni.
Call Number: DC158.8 .B46 2014
ISBN: 2262043205
Published/Created: 2014
Discusses the lesser known female figures of the French Revolution. Table of Contents: L'amour que La Fayette ne méritait pas; Émilie de Sainte-Amaranthe; Angélique, celle qui aimait un monstre; Sophie de Monnier ou la passion; Maîtresse d'un prince et gouverneur d'un Roi, Mme de Genlis; Un drame de l orgueil, le peintre David et Émilie Chalgrin; Les deux amours de Danton; La Reine des merveilleuses, Mme Tallien; Victoire de La Villirouët, avocate par amour; Les amoureux de Mme Roland; Une Reine du théâtre et de la galanterie, Élisabeth Lange; Louise de Pontbellanger ou le double jeu; Une Anglaise à Paris, L aventure de lady Eliott; Le roman de la belle Pamela; La belle Mme de Beauharnais ou l'art de vivre en prison; Le sacrifice de Marie Morin; Le court roman d'Armande de Troussebois et de Charles de Bellescize; La comtesse de Bréchard; Élisabeth Duplay et Philippe Le Bas; La marquise et le maçon. [Unknown Beauties of the Revolution]
Ces Dames au Salon : Féminisme et Fêtes Galantes au XVIIIe siècle by Anne-Marie Lugan-Dardigna
Call Number: HQ1616 .L84 2014
ISBN: 9782738131515
Published/Created: 2014
This book discusses the women of the 18th century who ran the salons and their role in creating a venue for the most enlightened minds to converse. It also grapples with the idea of woman as mother (first and foremost) and how that in many ways dominated the minds of men as they reconciled women's increasing demands for independence. Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-180) [Women of the Salon: Feminism and Courtly Rituals of the 18th c.]
Citoyennes : les Femmes et la Révolution Française by Annette Rosa
Call Number: DC158.8 .R67 1988
Published/Created: 1988
Preface by Claude Mazauric ; postface by Elisabeth Guibert-Sledziewski. La Révolution a-t-elle contribué à émanciper les femmes? This heavily illustrated book examines the lives of women in the French Revolution largely in their own words. It's primary question is, did the Revolution contributed to women's rights in France. Table of Contents: État Général des femmes en 1789; Voix des femmes, un siècle "feministe"?; Faire la Révolution 1789-1791; Vivre sous la Révolution; Femmes Contre Révolution; Femmes en Révolution 1792-1794. [Citizens: Women and the French Revolution]
Citoyennes Tricoteuses : les Femmes du Peuple à Paris pendant la Révolution by Dominique Godineau
Call Number: DC731 .G63 1988
Published/Created: 1988
This classic study of the French Revolution is also available in translation by Katherine Streip as The Women of Paris and their French Revolution (1998). Part of Collection "Femmes et révolution" Librairie du bicentenaire de la Révolution française. The book is organized in four sections. “Parisian Life in the French Revolution” introduces the reader to the material and political conditions of women's lives, bringing into relief their irrepressible presence and regular passage through the domestic and public spaces of the Revolutionary capital and their ongoing interactions with authorities and institutions at all levels.... A second section, “Aspiring Citizens,” traces and interprets women's appropriation of identities as members of a sovereign people and their practices of citizenship between the opening months of the Revolution and the collapse of the government of the Terror in the summer of 1794.... The central focus in this section is a detailed analysis of the membership, political convictions, strategies, impacts and downfall of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women, an exclusively female political club organized in the spring of 1793 by petit bourgeois and sans‐culotte women.... In a final section, Godineau provides a detailed and revealing analysis of the revolutionary journées of Germinal and Prairial, Year III (1795), during which sans‐culotte women initiated a series of insurrectionary confrontations with revolutionary authorities. They demanded bread, the Constitution of 1793, and the restitution of grassroots democratic institutions. They incited sans‐culotte men to join them and marched on the National Convention. (Darline Gay Levy)
De la Condition des Femmes dans les Républiques, 1799 by Charles-Guillaume Théremin
Call Number: HQ1613 .T45 1996
ISBN: 2907883887
Published/Created: 1996
Preface by Marie-France Silver. Part of the series Des femmes dans l'histoire. This slim volume (this edition is only 76 pages) was originally published in 1799 when women's legal rights in France were being increasingly diminished and would continue to be, as Napoleon placed women squarely under control of their husbands. This text argues for increased freedom for individual women in French society-contrary to public opinion. Includes bibliographical references. [The Status of Women in the Republics]
De la condition des femmes dans les Républiques, 1799 by Charles-Guillaume Théremin ; préface de Marie-France Silver.
Call Number: HQ1613 .T45 1996
Published/Created: 1799
During this time, French diplomat, Charles-Guillaume Théremin wrote (among other things) this work, a strong plea for the equality of men and women under the Republic. He felt they must no longer tolerate the inequalities of the Ancien Régime: women must no longer remain confined to the home but participate in public life, for general prosperity. “Such are the services that the Fatherland can expect from women when it wants to recognize them for its children as equal to us.”. [The Condition of women in the Republic]. [Unofficial translation from book-seller] As Ellen McNiven Hine points out in her book Constance de Salm, her influence and her circle in the aftermath of the French Revolution , Théremin followed the lead of the Marquis de Condorcet in urging the extension of citizenship to include women. His argument was very appealing to Pipelet and she writes a "Report on the works of Théremin".
Dictionnaire des femmes des Lumières by Edited by Huguette Krief and Valérie André ; with an introduction by Huguette Krief.
Call Number: DC36.2 .D53 2015
ISBN: 9782745324870
Published/Created: 2015
Eclats de Femmes : une Révolte de Femmes en Forez pendant la Révolution by Agnès Desquand
Call Number: DC158.8 .D46 1999
ISBN: 2950957137
Published/Created: 1999
This book is a collection of selections from Claude Magdeleine Mathé de Beaurevoir's Livre de raison. A livre de raison (from the Latin liber rationis or liber rationum , or "book of accounts") is a register of domestic accounting also including family or local notations. Held by the father, it was a reminder for the author, but it was primarily intended to inform his heirs. Frequently, the same livre de raison was transmitted from generation to generation, each head of family holding it in turn. Forez is a former province in France that corresponds roughly with the modern day Loire department. Table of Contents: Extrait du livre de raison de Monsieur Mathé de Beaurevoir: L'Aix; Le ventre de la Tour Payan; Femmes de bois; Femmes de chair; La Déesse de pierre; La Liberté; La Chalier; Veillée; La Fantôme; Des Récollets aux Pénitents; Le décommérage;Secrets; Les prisons de Feurs; La lettre; L'orgie; Le chemin vers l'Est; Le Golgotha. Includes bibliographical references. [Women's Revolt in Forez during the Revolution]
Femmes aux armées : de 1792 à 1815 by Marie-Louise Jacotey
Call Number: UB419.F8 J33 1999
ISBN: 2878251741
Published/Created: 1999
Preface by Geneviève de Galard. This book discusses the roles of women in battle during the French Revolution and during the Napoleonic Wars (during the Empire). Many women followed their husbands to battle, others were warriors in their own right. Table of Contents: Préface; In Limine; Avant-propos; Ribaudes et paillardes; Épouses et maîtresses; Vivandières-cantinières; Femmes soldats, guerrières et amazones; Annexe; Femmes guerrières citées dans l'ouvrage; Quelques ouvrages sur ce sujet. Includes bibliographical references (p. 76). [Women in the Army]
Femmes des Lumieres by Michèle Crogiez Labarthe (Editor); Edith Flamarion (Editor); Huguette Krief (Editor); Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-Dieval (Editor)
Call Number: PQ149 .F56 2018
ISBN: 9782406063889
Published/Created: 2018
This team of twenty scholars offers new projects (2010-2016) about the women of the Enlightenment. During that century, the divide between men and women shifted in the sciences, literature, and politics - and the group shows that women were major participants in the Enlightenment.
Femmes et Philosophie des Lumieres by Laurence Vanoflen (Editor)
Call Number: B105.W6 F45 2020
ISBN: 9782406095989
Published/Created: 2020
Were there any women-philosophers in the eighteenth century? If so, how did they participate in the Enlightenment? In light of recently rediscovered corpora, this collective volume investigates the topics explored by these women, and how they contributed to the cultural and publishing field.
Ils ont pensé les droits de l'homme: textes et débats, 1789-1793 by Madeleine Rebérioux, Antoine de Baecque, Dominique Godineau
Call Number: KJV4204 .I43 1989 CABIN BRANCH
ISBN: 2196030937
Published/Created: 1989
This work contains various debates and declarations from the era of the French Revolution including: La déclaration du 26 août 1789; La déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne, and La déclaration du 23 juin 1793. Available in the Law Library of Congress. May need to be requested from off site (Cabin Branch). [They Thought About Human Rights: Texts and Debates]
L'Enfant, la famille et la Révolution française by Marie-Françoise Lévy
Call Number: DC158.8 .L46 1990
Published/Created: 1990
This is a collection of articles that cover women's domestic lives, how they operate as mothers at the end of the Old Regime and into the Revolution. Chapters touch on topics involving children in the public space, how women balanced revolutionary activity and motherhood and other topics that have not been addressed often in other works of scholarship but remain central to understanding women in the Revolution. Each chapter has several articles by various scholars. Table of Contents: L'Enfant et la famille de l'ancien régime à la Révolution; L'Enfant et la Nation; Les Représentations de l'Enfant dans l' Art et la Littérature; La Famille, la Loi et l'Ordre; L'Héritage de la Révolution; Conclusion. [Child, Family and the French Revolution]
La Femme au temps de la Révolution by Catherine Fouquet
Call Number: DC158.8 .F67 1989
ISBN: 2234021456
Published/Created: 1989
This work examines women of all backgrounds, including those who were against the Revolution. Many of those deemed to be counter-revolutionaries were nuns who were martyrs for their faith. The author writes in the period after Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and evaluates the early years of the 1789 Revolution in the context of the modern day women's movement in France. 60 pages of illustrations and prints. Table of Contents: Le Temps des Espérances (1789-1791);Le Désenchantement (1791-1793); Au Coeur du Drame (1793-1795); L'Assomption du Modèle Bourgeois (1795-1799); Conclusion. [Women at the Time of the Revolution]
La Force du Sexe Faible : Contre-histoire de la Révolution française by Michel Onfray
Call Number: DC148 .O64 2016
ISBN: 2746743426
Published/Created: 2016
Introduction. Robespierre n'a pas eu lieu Anatomie du cerveau reptilien -- Les Girondines -- Une révolution sans testostérone -- Olympe de Gouges -- La force du sexe faible -- Manon Roland -- Les malheurs de la vertu girondine -- Charlotte Corday -- Le sublime de l'énergie -- Théroigne de Méricourt -- La liberté par les femmes -- Germaine de Staël -- La raison pragmatique -- Conclusion. La gauche est morte. Vive la gauche ! -- Couper la queue de Robespierre. [The Strength of the Weaker Sex: Counter-history of the French Revolution]
La Révolte Brisée : Femmes dans la Révolution Française et l'Empire by Jean-Clément Martin
Call Number: DC158.8 .M283 2008
ISBN: 9782200346263
Published/Created: 2008
This work examines women of this era (both in France and in French territories of the time) as demonstrators, activists, mothers, friends, victims, seducers and goddesses in both the private and public spheres. Table of Contents: Une société en quête d'elle-même; Les limites de l'espérance; La Famille révolutionnaire; L'empire des femmes. Includes bibliographical references (p.248-262) and index. [The Broken Revolt: Women in the French Revolution and the Empire]
La Révolution et les Femmes de 1789 à 1796 by Anne Soprani
Call Number: DC158.8 .S67 1988
Published/Created: 1988
This work discusses the key figures of the day from the upper classes of Madame de Staël, Sophie de Condorcet and Louise de Kéralio to Théroigne de Mericourt and women of the people such as Reine Audu, Claire Lacombe and Pauline Léon- not to mention Olympe de Gouges and Etta Palm. She also discusses those women on the other side of the Revolution: Marie Antoinette, Charlotte Corday and the Vendéennnes who fought to defend their own values. Table of Contents: La Révolution en marche; Les femmes triomphantes; "Ô Liberté, que de crimes commis en ton nom"; Bibliography: p. 235-238. [The Revolution and the Women from 1789 to 1796]
La Tallien, la Terreur à Bordeaux by Jean-Claude Fauveau
Call Number: DC146.C45 F38 2016
ISBN: 9782351561751
Published/Created: 2016
A popular biography in the style of historical fiction, of the young and charming Thérésia Cabarrus (Tallien). This work chronicles her experiences in Bordeaux between 1793-1794 during the height of The Terror. Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-172). (May 1793-April 1794) [Tallien, the Terror in Bordeaux]

[Unofficial translation from publisher] 1793. We are in the era of Terror. She reigns supreme almost everywhere and especially in Bordeaux, which refuses to submit, particularly the Girondins. In the middle of this turmoil, a woman Thérésia, a family the Cabarrus, shipowners from Bayonne and then Bordeaux, well integrated into the Aquitaine environment. Separated from a libertine husband, Thérésia becomes the mistress of Jean-Lambert Tallien, who is sent to Bordeaux to repress federalist movements. While he will terrorize the city by sending dozens of unfortunate people to be guillotined on the National Square (Gambetta), Thérésia will devote herself without counting to save hundreds of others whom she will snatch one by one from the clutches of the Conventional, which earned it the nickname of Notre Dame du Bon Secours. We discover an ambitious Theresia, fearless and somewhat ambiguous in her choices, but who will not hesitate to risk her life when she deems it necessary.
Le Sans-Culotte, sa Femme et le Diable ; Suivi de, Mystère à Martigues by Michel Vovelle
Call Number: DC158.8 .V6827 2018
ISBN: 9782953761481
Published/Created: 2018
Written by a well-known historian of the French Revolution, this work invites us to revisit the Revolutionary period in connection with the current dialogues between the sexes in modern-day France. Part of the Collection Lumières de Provence. [The Sans Culotte, his Wife and the Devil] [Unofficial translation from publisher] “Balance ton porc" the slogan that grew throughout 2017 should encourage men to be cautiously modest with their partners. It invites us to revisit not only the gaze but male behavior in the past.
It is in these terms that the latest book by Michel Vovelle, specialist in the French Revolution, invites us to return to the relationships between men and women through two selected examples of the sans-culotte couple. He introduces the debate by taking up the iconographic analysis developed in his book The French Revolution, Images and stories exposing the feminine sans-culotte. Then he presents us with a sketchbook dating from the revolutionary era depicting a sans-culotte wanting to sell his wife to the devils. To conclude, he returns to the latest analyzes of the graffiti of a sans-culotte confronting the gaze of his “partner”, studied by him in the 1980s in the Annonciade church in Martigues. This book explores the image of women through the scenes that depicted them at that time.
Les égéries de la Révolution by Jean et Marie-José Tulard
Call Number: DC158.8 .T84 2019
Published/Created: 2019
Pt. 1. Aux origines de la Révolution -- Les égéries de salon -- Mme Necker -- Mme Helvétius -- Mme de Boufflers -- Mme de Condorcet -- L'égérie des loges : Fanny de Beauharnais -- Les égéries de la cour -- La princesse de Lamballe, l'effacée -- Yolande de Polignac, la favorite -- Mme d'Ossun -- Le retour de Mme de Polignac -- L'égérie du Palais-Royal : Mme de Genlis -- L'égérie d'un futur roi : la comtesse de Balbi -- Pt. 2. L'échec d'une monarchie constitutionnelle -- L'éphémère égérie de M. Necker : Mme de Staël -- Les égéries de la rue : Reine Audu, Claire Lacombe, Pauline Léon -- Théroigne de Méricourt, la première amazone de la Liberté -- Pour les droits des Noirs et des femmes : Olympe de Gouges -- Mme Roland, l'égérie des Girondins -- Pt. 3. La Terreur -- Charlotte Corday, l'égérie du tyrannicide -- Égéries de conventionnels -- L'égérie d'un régicide : Louise de Kéralio -- Une égérie pour monstre froid : Mme Fouché -- Le conventionnel et la belle émigrée : Charlotte-Félicité de Luppé -- Les égéries de la presse -- Femmes journalistes -- La mère Duchesne -- L'épouse du Vieux Cordelier -- Les égéries de la Contre-Révolution -- L'égérie du comte d'Artois : Mme de Polastron -- Une égérie de la Vendée : la marquise de la Rochejaquelein -- Une autre Vendéenne : Mme de Sapinaud -- Une égérie intrigante : Mme de Bonneuil -- La Saint-Huberty : une égérie discrète -- La vertu robespierriste trahie par les égéries -- La mère de Dieu -- Notre-Dame de Thermidor : Theresia Cabarrus -- Pt. 4. Les égéries du Directoire -- Mme Tallien, la reine du Directoire -- Les égéries de la finance -- Mme Hamelin, la merveille des Merveilleuses -- Une comédienne dans la finance : Mlle Lange -- La plus belle : Mme Récamier -- Joséphine : de Barras à Bonaparte -- Une égérie manquée : Mme de Staël. [Muses of the Revolution]
Les Femmes : 1789-1793 by Louise Laflandre-Linden
Call Number: DC158.8 .L34 1994
ISBN: 2901952208
Published/Created: 1994
This work touches on the roles of women overall in various cultures including ancient Greece and Rome and then turns to focus on the women of the French Revolution. Table of Contents: Les femmes dans l'ancien régime; Les femmes dans les assemblées; Le travail des femmes; Les religieuses; Les amazones; Chouannes et Vendéennes; Nobles et bourgeoises; Une profiteuse:Cabarrus and Tallien; Les combattantes: Etta Palm d'Aelders, Théroigne de Méricourt, Claire Lacombe, Pauline Léon, Madame Hyde de Neuville, Madame Gasnier de l'Espinay, Madame la comtesse de La Villirouet; Face à la guillotine, les nobles, les militantes et les autres: Marie-Antoinette, Madame Élisabeth, La princesse de Lamballe, Françoise-Thérèse de Choiseul-Stainville, princesse de Monaco, Madame du Barry, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Madame Bouquey, Cécile Renault, Olympe de Gouges; Que restait-il aux femmes de la Révolution? Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-227). [Women: 1789-1793]
Les femmes célèbres de 1789 à 1795, et leur influence dans la révolution, pour servir de suite et de complément à toutes les histoires de la révolution française by E. Lairtullier
Call Number: DC145 .L37
Published/Created: 1840
Famous Women of 1789 to 1795 and their influcence in the Revolution. This two-volume book covers many women of the Revolution including: Théroigne de Mericourt, Madame Necker (de Staël), Charlotte Corday, Suzette Labrousse, Madame Roland, and "La Mére Duchesne". Electronically Available from HathiTrust. [Famous Women of 1789 to 1795 and their influcence in the Revolution]
Les Femmes dans la Tourmente by Nicole Vray
Call Number: DC158.8 .V73 1988
Published/Created: 1988
This book examines all the events of the Revolution only as to how they effect (Western) women. It is an effort to draw out the personalities and lives of the "other half" of France who far from always being just protected or persecuted, were active agitators alongside the men and yet (as Vray notes in her introduction) are so often left out of the narrative. Table of Contents: A l'aube de la Révolution; 1789-1790: L'espoir; 1791-1792: L'action. Les premiers conflits; 1793-1794: Le grand tournant; 1795-1798: La fin du rêve; Conclusion. Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-140) [Women in Torment]
Les Femmes et la Révolution : 1770-1830 by Christine le Bozec
Call Number: DC158.8 .L39 2019
ISBN: 9782379330124
Published/Created: 2019
Pt. 1. Les femmes à la veille de la révolution française -- 1. Femmes et salons -- L'esprit des salons -- Héritières d'une tradition -- Autorité ou mondanité -- 2. Le droit des femmes, la soumission -- Droits des femmes au XVIIIe siècle, une chimère -- Un pionnier du féminisme -- L'éducation des filles -- 3. De rares possibilités d'indépendance -- Les femmes en peinture -- Les femmes en littérature au XXVIIIe siècle -- Actrices, danseuses, chanteuses -- Une armée de pédagogues et d'institutrices -- Deux chefs d'entreprise hors normes -- Des limites -- Des réactions féminines ambiguës -- Des femmes à la tête de nombreuses révoltes -- 4. L'irruption des femmes sur la scène révolutionnaire -- L'entrée en révolution dès 1789 -- Les 5 et 6 octobre 1789, un moment féminin -- Des modes d'action divers -- Vers des actions collectives concertées -- Des acquis bienvenus mais insuffisants -- Loin d'une unanimité féminine -- 5. Un pic de radicalité au printemps et à l'été 1793 -- Structuration et radicalisation du mouvement révolutionnaire féminin -- Le mouvement féminin sur le terrain -- Un mois de septembre 1793 agité -- Des "Enragées" qui inquiètent -- 6. Le coup d'arrêt de l'automne 1793 -- En première ligne -- Le discours de Jean-Pierre-André Amar -- Les mesures immédiates -- Les femmes exclues de l'armée -- Les Arts, un domaine confisqué aux femmes -- Des cas exemplaires et symboliques d'exclusion professionnelle -- Les autorités entre paradoxes et ambiguïtés -- Le fond de l'affaire -- Embourgeoisement puritain de la Révolution -- 7. Des militantes toujours sur la brèche -- Novembre 1793-27 juillet 1794, les femmes ne quittent pas le terrain des revendications -- Les femmes et la lutte des factions -- Exaspération et déconvenue -- La Convention thermidorienne et l'hiver de l'an -- L'hiver 1795 -- Les journées révolutionnaires d'avril-mai 1795 -- La crise de Floréal : les femmes mènent la danse -- 1er prairial an III (20 mai 1795), les femmes moteur de la journée -- L'exclusion des femmes de la vie publique -- 8. Des lendemains qui ne chantent pas -- La répression -- Recul dans tous les domaines -- Une exception, les institutrices -- Le retour de la femme "parure" sous le Directoire -- Les "salonnières" du Directoire -- 9. Les ambiguïtés de la question -- Avancées et apories -- Une cause peu mobilisatrice, inquiétante et déstabilisatrice -- La bataille de l'instruction -- Olympe, toujours et encore -- Des freins ancestraux -- De vives oppositions féminines à la Révolution -- Le choc d'un arrêt brutal -- 10. Trente années de stagnation puis de régression : 1799-1830 -- Bonaparte et le Code civil -- Une inégalité légale -- Des épouses et des mères -- Une survivance, quelques salons très surveillés -- Femmes et Restauration -- Le triomphe de quelques individualités sous la Restauration -- Une évolution à la veille de la révolution de 1830. [Women and the Revolution: 1770-1830]
Les Femmes et la Révolution : 1789-1794 by Paule-Marie Duhet
Call Number: HQ1616 .D84 1977
ISBN: 2070288730
Published/Created: 1977
Texts chosen and presented by Paule-Marie Duhet. Théroigne de Méricourt, Olympe de Gouges, Rose Lacombe ... Depuis Michelet, un dossier existait, qui attendait d'être lu, mais d'abord un problème qu'il fallait reconnaître : la passion de Condorcet, le mépris de Robespierre s'y mêlent au lyrisme des Soeurs de la Constitution, à la rage des Républicaines Révolutionnaires, à la parole anonyme et bientôt étouffée de toutes ces femmes, ménagères ou militantes, parties à la recherche des droits de l'homme. Derrière l'anecdote et le scandale où s'exprime la violence d'une société, Paule-Marie Duhet retrouve cet aveu troublant : La Révolution n'a reconnu que la moitié de ses enfants.
Les femmes et la Révolution française : actes du colloque international, 12-13-14 avril 1989, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail by Marie-France Brive
Call Number: DC158.8 .F456 1989
Published/Created: 1989
Conference proceedings from Les Femmes et la Révolution française edited and prepared by Marie-France Brive, published by Mirail University Press (PUM), Toulouse, 525 pages. Important papers and comments by key feminist scholars.
Contents: 1. Avant Propos 2. Allocution de Jean Noël Jeanneney 3.La marche des femmes parisiennes sur Versailles 4. Action révolutionnaire en province et á l'étranger 5.Rapport de synthése par Rémy Pech George Fournier
6.Rapport de synthése par Olwen Jufton and Marie Sylvie 7. Madame Roland et l'autobiographie ou une grande 8. Rapport de synthèse par Georges Mailhos Estelle Pegeot 9.Synthése de la séance plénière Thème I par George Fournier 10. Nouveaux droits nouveaux devoirs 11.Rapport de synthèse par François Duroux 12. La réponse juridique 13. Les femmes devant la justice á Toulouse 14.Qui sont les mères de nos enfants 15. Révolutionnaire 16. L'égalité 17. Rapport de synthèse par Jacqueline Rubellin Devichi 18. Le débat sur l'instruction 19. Dominique Fougeyrollas-Schwebel 20. Liste des abréviations 21. Note sur les groupes de recherches femmes á l'université de Toulouse [Women and the French Revolution: Proceedings from the International Conference]
Les origines du féminisme contemporain : trois femmes de la révolution : Olympe de Gouges, Théroigne de Méricourt, Rose Lacombe by Léopold Lacour
Call Number: DC145 .L2
Published/Created: 1900
This biography of Olympe de Gouges, Théroigne de Méricourt and Rose Lacombe examines the origins of modern feminism. It was published in 1900 so modern is a relative term. Part of the John Boyd Thacher Collection in the Rare Book Reading Room (Library of Congress) Available in full text from Gallica. [The origins of modern feminism: three women of the revolution]
Les quatre saisons d'Angélique : correspondance d'une paysanne pendant la Révolution française by Fulgence Delleaux
Call Number: DC146.L474 D45 2020
ISBN: 9782227498600
Published/Created: 2020
This unique publication contains material written by peasant women (focus on the writer Angélique) over the span of one year. For rural historians this has been a challenge in the past because of the shortage of written material by farm workers of this era especially in a consistent manner. The testimonies here are written by the peasant women themselves and unlike sources recorded by others in legal documents, these personal accounts are imbued with raw feelings. Table of Contents: 1. L' été (20 juin-21 septembre 1789) "Des amateurs ou des amoureux" pour le lin cette saison? (26) "J'aime mieux vendre quatre bonniers de lin, que d'acheter un cheval" (30) "L'août": un moment crucial (33) "Ce n'était pas tout le profit du fermier, quand le bled était cher" (38) "C'est pour nos enfants que nous travaillons" (42) 2. L'automne (22 septembre-20 décembre 1789) Une "remise" des terres éprouvante (51) D'autres instants de contrariété et d'inquiétude (55) Se consoler et se rassurer (63) 3. L'hiver (21 décembre 1789-19 mars 1790) Gérer et vivre avec la domesticité (73) Négoces d'hiver (80) Sociabilité, sentiments et fonctionnement de la ferme (88) 4. Le printemps (20 mars-19 juin 1790) État et travaux printaniers des champs (103) Tracas intimes (111) Conclusion. [Angélique's Four Seasons]
Les Salonnières by Édouard Leduc
Call Number: DC33 .L43 2020
Published/Created: 2020
Whoever runs a salon is a salonnière. The term has become established in worldly circles to designate private meetings organized at regular intervals at the home of a lady from high society or having entered it by marriage with a rich and preferably titled man. She generally has her own space, which allows her to hold open tables as she wishes and to choose her guests. She must show that she is cultured but above all that she has wit because her reputation depends on it. Without this asset, she will never be recognized as a socialite and her living room will not stand the test of time. The correspondence exchanged between salonnières made it possible to better understand the portraits of some great female figures who in the culture of their time played an essential role that was otherwise denied to them. Most of them have now been forgotten. This book aims to get them back into the spotlight. Table of Contents: 1.L'Hôtel de Rambouillet 2.Le Grand Siècle 3.Un vent de liberté 4. Les "Encyclopédistes" 5. Querelles de Dames 6. En ces temps de révolution 7.Les féministes 8. Sociabilité mondaine et morale publique 9. À chacun son égérie 10. Vivre en République 11.Les derniers salons. Livre Deuxième: Les Dîners de Paris sous la Troisième République I. Éloge de la gastronomie II. Rendez-vous chez Brébant. The scope goes outside of the 1789 Revolution but discusses salonnières in Parisian society.
Le temps des Orages : Aristocrates, Bourgeoises et Paysannes Racontent by Marilyn Yalom
Call Number: DC158.8 .Y35 1989
ISBN: 2876040255
Published/Created: 1989
More than some books, this work attempts to give the reader an overall feel of the pace of life and the interaction between women of all backgrounds rather than separate biographies of each player. The effort is to make history less abstract and more experiential. She includes materials that give a voice to the women who did not publish great works, for example the accounts of a peasant from the Vendée who writes about the many tragic deaths in her family at the hands of Revolutionaries. These testimonies and the many illustrations create a powerful study in women of the era. Contains numerous illustrations and prints. Table of Contents: Introduction: 1789; La chute de la maison royale, vue par ses intimes; Les républicaines: Olympe de Gouges et Mme Roland; La Charité maternelle; Charlotte Robespierre; Autour de la guillotine: la vicomtesse de Fars Fausselandry et la comtesse de La Villirouët; Les Vendéennes: Renée Bordereau et la comtesse de Bonchamps; Les exilées: Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Mme de Ménerville et la marquise de La Tour du Pin; Les hommes de 1789 jugés par les femmes; Témoignages; Présentation; Extraits des Mémoires de Renée Bordereau; Souvenirs d'Élisabeth Le Bas; Testament politique d'Olympe de Gouge; Lettres d'une bourgeoise jacobine,[Rosalie Jullien] à son mari; Extrait des Mémoires de Mme de Bonchamps; Notes. Preface by Benoîte Groult [The Time of Storms: Aristocrats, Bourgeoisie and Peasants Speak]
Lettres bougrement patriotiques de la Mère Duchêne ; suivi de Journal des femmes : 1791 by Preface and notes by Ouzi Elyada
Call Number: DC140 .L48 1989
ISBN: 2905291095
Published/Created: 1989
Reprint. Originally published as serial publications, Paris, chez Guilhemat, 1791. Note: Mère Duchêne, aka Pétronille Mâchefer , so-called wife to Père Duschene (aka Jacques-René Hébert). Père Duschene was a radical revolutionary newspaper edited by Hébert. Includes bibliographical references (p.195) and index. [Patriotic letters from Mother Duchêne]
Liberté, égalité, exclusion : femmes peintres en Révolution, 1770-1804 by Marie-Josèphe Bonnet
Call Number: ND552 .B646 2012
ISBN: 9782363580412
Published/Created: 2012
At the end of the reign of Louis XVI, women were finally included in art and its institutions. A generation of artists emerged including Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun Vallayer-Coster Anne, famous for her still lifes, Adelaide Labille-Guiard, Gabrielle Capet-Marie Guillemine Leroulx Delaville, Marguerite Gerard and Constance Charpentier. However these artists, while of great value, never became the equal of men in the cultural landscape of the official Revolution, and the Empire during the Restoration completed this work of censorship and exclusion. Soon there was nothing left of the emancipation movement whose foundations had been laid in the last years of the Ancient Regime.
Contents 1. Entrée dans le séminaire des arts -- Rupture dans la hiérarchie des genres -- Suzanne Giroust, machiniste merveilleuse -- Anne Vallayer ou la rhétorique de la nature morte -- Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, stratège ambitieuse -- Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, enfant chérie des Lumières -- Résistances de l'Académie -- Le labeur et la grâce -- L'atelier de la rue Ménars -- 2. Une génération prête à faire carrière -- L'atelier de la rue Ménars -- Figures de la souveraineté féminine -- Interdiction au Palais du Louvre -- La reine de France, bouc émissaire -- 3. Citoyennes? -- Au Salon de 1789 -- "L'âme des dames romaines dans les femmes françaises" -- "Je ne pouvais plus peindre" -- 4. L'illusion de la liberté -- "Toute honnête femme artiste est un homme pour l'Académie" -- La chute de la Bastille académique -- "Le premier Salon de la Liberté" -- Les droits de la femme relèvent-ils des droits de l'homme? -- 5. Les mécanismes de l'exclusion -- Autodafés -- Liberté, égalité: le grand oeuvre de Nanine Vallain -- La loi de la nature -- L'intelligence et la beauté -- 6. Le nouvel ordre des sexes -- Exclue de l'Institut -- Deuil d'un âge d'or -- "N'en parlons plus car la plaie se rouvrirait" -- "Les femmes régnaient alors, la Révolution les a détrônées"
Liberté, Égalité... et les Femmes by Michèle Dayras
Call Number: HQ 1613. L53 1990
ISBN: 2908593009
Published/Created: 1990
This two-volume collection begins with meaningful quotations from Olympe de Gouges in Citoyennes tricoteuses, Etta Palm, Théroigne de Mericourt and moves all the way to the more recent past with Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. While not limited to the women of the French Revolution, this is a valuable book to put them firmly into the context of French Feminism today. [Liberty, Equality and Women]
Madame Élisabeth de France (1764-1794) : l'offrande d'une vie by Dominique Sabourdin-Perrin
Call Number: DC137.4 .S23 2017
ISBN: 9782706716140
Published/Created: 2017
Born in Versailles on May 3, 1764, Madame Élisabeth of France is the granddaughter of Louis XV, daughter of the dauphin and sister of King Louis XVI. With a beautiful personality, cultivated, she is very attentive to others and to spiritual requirements. Understanding that she will not marry and that she is not called to religious life either, she decides to lead her life in prayer and support of the poor. Her reputation for kindness spread. In the dramatic context of the Revolution, it reactivates the devotion to the Vow of Louis XIII and to the Heart of Mary. For her courage during a riot, she was even nicknamed “Saint Geneviève of the Tuileries”. Imprisoned in the Temple, she was executed on the scaffold on May 10, 1794, giving an exemplary testimony of faith until the end. Dominique Sabourdin-Perrin retraces her journey here at the time when the diocese of Paris has just introduced its cause for beatification. Historian, Dominique Sabourdin-Perrin has notably published The Forgotten of the Temple and The Ladies of Sainte-Élisabeth. She is particularly interested in religious life under the Ancien Régime.
Madame Tallien : 1773-1835 by Françoise Kermina
Call Number: DC146.C45 K47 2006
ISBN: 2262025231
Published/Created: 2006
Françoise Kermina wrote biographies on several significant figures (both men and women) in French history including Madame Roland and Saint-Just. Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-[325]) and index.
Madame Tallien : la Reine du Directoire : Biographie by Christian Gilles
Call Number: DC146.C45 G54 1999
ISBN: 2843941210
Published/Created: 1999
This biography of Madame Tallien focuses on the social and political influence she exerted during her long public life. Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-[[348]). [Madame Tallien: The Queen of the Directory]
Marianne au combat : l'imagerie et la symbolique républicaines de 1789 à 1880 by Maurice Agulhon
Call Number: N6847 .A38
Published/Created: 1979
Explores the French emblem of Marianne in art, symbolism, allegories and the role of art in politics. Bibliography: p. [241]-251. Explores not only the 1789 Revolution but the Paris Commune of 1871 and other uprisings. [Marianne into Battle: Imagery and republican symbolism from 1789-1880] New translation available in English.
Marie-Antoinette libertine ; bibliographie critique et analytique des pamphlets politiques, galants, et obscènes contre la reine, précédée de la réimpression intégrale de quatre libelles rarissimes et d'une histoire des pamphlétaires du régne de L by Hector Fleischmann
Call Number: DC137.19 .F56
Published/Created: 1911
Published in 1908 under the title Les pamphlets libertins contre Marie-Antoinette, based on new documents and pamphlets taken from L'Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale, this Jacobin-inspired essay - presented by the author as a "study" - was written in a spirit of revenge: "What is least lacking in the hundreds of volumes devoted to Marie-Antoinette are the apologies", wrote Fleischmann, adopting, for his part, the perspective closest to the spirit of the pamphlets: "Without doubt, it is not a question here of overwhelming the memory of Marie-Antoinette: for this task it is sufficient." If we can question the ideology which animates Fleischmann, his approach to the sources pamphleteers proves to be meticulous and unprecedented. Catalog of turpitudes long recorded in the Hell of libraries, the corpus of libertine pamphlets against Marie-Antoinette is not made to disappoint: the representations of compulsive sexuality and the lure of lucre trace the intimate space of depravity. Execration adheres to every line. The desire for public humiliation which governed the writing of the pamphlets is not only the work of revolutionaries; the royalist libels of the "French party" hostile to the advent of an Austrian queen had opened the way. [Unofficial translation from publisher] Bibliography and critical analysis of various materials slandering Queen Marie-Antoinette. Vérités dédiées à Marie Antoinette.--Confession dernière et testament de Marie Antoinette.--Le branle des capucins.--Vie privée, libertine, et scandaleuse de Marie Antoinette. [Marie Antoinette libertine]
Minorités Politiques en Révolution by Christine Peyrard (editor)
Call Number: DC158.8 .M56 2007
ISBN: 9782853996754
Published/Created: 2007
This publication edited by Christine Peyrard contains essays by various scholars examining the political minorities in Revolutionary France. These minorities include among them those who practice faith, political moderates during the Revolution, those from the provinces, anarchists, and finally they discuss whether women might be viewed as a political minority. List of contributers: Nathalie Alzas, Cyril Belmonte, Bruno Benoit, Yannick Bosc, Françoise Brunel, Marc Deleplace, Jacques Guilhaumou, Annie Jourdan, Martine Lapied, Christine Peyrard, and Michel Vovelle. [Political Minorities in the Revolution]
Robespierre, les femmes et la Révolution by Claude Guillon
Call Number: DC146.R6 G86 2021
ISBN: 9782364810266
Published/Created: 2021
Liste des abréviations utilisées -- Sexe, genre et "galanterie" -- Popularité, vertu et chasteté -- Le droit de vote des femmes -- Les Dames de la Halle et Robespierre -- Robespierre et les Citoyennes républicaines révolutionnaires -- Femmes et féminité dans les textes de Robespierre -- En guide de conclusion -- Un témoignage sur la Reine d'Hongrie -- Dans les papiers de Robespierre -- Robespierre à propos de Fabre d'Églantine -- Des femmes et de la féminité dans les textes et discours de Robespierre -- La fabrication du goujat.
Traces de femmes : présence féminine dans le journalisme français du XVIIIe siècle by Suzanna van Dijk
Call Number: PN5184.W58 D55 1988
ISBN: 9030210184
Published/Created: 1988
Traces de femmes dans le journalisme français.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Université de Nimègue, 1988).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-310) and indexes. [Traces of Women: feminine presence in 18th c. French journalism].
Thérésia/Robespierre : la femme qui tua la Terreur by Thérèse Charles-Vallin
Call Number: DC146.C45 C43 2019
ISBN: 9791092566253
Published/Created: 2019
This biography by well-known historian and author of other biographies on women in the Revolution explores the life and the public image of fascinating activist Thérésia Cabarrus (1773-1835). She took her married name, Tallien during the years 1767-1820. Part of the book also focuses on Robespierre, as the author finds the juxtaposition of these two figures to be enlightening. Part of the series: Vies en miroir. Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-322) and index. [Thérésia, Robespierre: The woman who killed the Terror]

In December 1793 in Bordeaux, Thérésia, who had always been interested in the ideas of the Enlightenment and in politics, gave a speech on Education and, in April 1794, sent an address to the Convention on the role of women in the Republic. Free in her personal life, she committed herself to defending human rights when she could, and also those of women, during a Revolution which precisely denied female citizens their place in the Republic, but not on the scaffold! Thérésia was also nicknamed Our Lady of September (Tallien was involved in the massacres) and Our Lady of Good Help (she never gave up saving a life): this shows the fluctuation of the judgments passed on her during her lifetime! Maximilien (de) Robespierre (1758-1794), the Incorruptible, a figure subject to variations in historical analyzes and ideologies, nonetheless remains the soul of a government which, by the decree of September 5, 1793, will formalize terror. [Unofficial translation from publisher]
Théroigne de Méricourt, 1762-1817, ou, La Femme écrasée by Christiane Marciano-Jacob
Call Number: DC146.T36 M37 2001
ISBN: 2912283469
Published/Created: 2001
A comprehensive study of Théroigne de Méricourt. Table of Contents: Une enfance ballottée; Ad augusta; L'unique passion; Vers la liberté; À l'aube d'un temps nouveau; Théroigne de Méricourt; L'action révolutionnaire; L'enlèvement; Kufstein; Otage?; Dans Paris qui gronde; Septembre noir; L'année sanglante; Réclusion; Conclusion. Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-200). [Théroigne de Méricourt or The Crushed Woman]

It is to the Revolution of 1789 that we owe the true emergence of feminism, one of the most famous heroines of which remains Théroigne de Méricourt. Coming from a modest peasant family, deprived of her mother by illness at the age of five, she experienced the difficult life of homeless children and suffered the humiliations that the masters of the time could inflict on defenseless young women. After many tribulations, Théroigne participated in the great hours of the French Revolution. Discovering the seeds of a new world there, she will act to ensure that her great ideal of justice and equality between the sexes is realized. But males, who fight to keep or seize power, never consider conceding the slightest bit of it to women. We'll let him know. The feminist conquests, so evident today, owe everything to women of Théroigne's caliber. [Unofficial translation from publisher]
Théroigne de Méricourt : une Femme Mélancolique sous la Révolution by Elisabeth Roudinesco
Call Number: DC146.T36 R68 1989
Published/Created: 1989
This biography is a heavily researched and thorough account of a complicated life. The author speculates on the mental stability of Méricourt. Table of Contents: La conquête de la liberté; L'exil et le retour; Histoire de la folie; Histoire de l'Histoire; Féminisme ou hérédité-dégénérescence? Mélodrame et névrose. [Théroigne de Méricourt: A melancholic woman during the Revolution]

Blood Sisters by Marilyn Yalom
Call Number: DC145 .Y35 1993
ISBN: 0465092632
Published/Created: 1993
"The promises of "liberty, equality, and fraternity" did not extend to women, but with the publication of Blood Sisters, the voices of the women who witnessed the French Revolution are finally restored to history." "They left us an invaluable legacy - some eighty accounts of what they saw and experienced. These chronicles range from the sixteen-page testimonial of the Widow Bault, wife of the concierge in Marie-Antoinette's prison, to the ten-volume memoirs of the prolific writer Mme de Genlis; from the dictated life story of an illiterate peasant to acknowledged classics by Mme Roland and Mme de Stael. No other literature in the Western world offers such an early treasury of women recording their personal histories within the context of a great political cataclysm." "Their stories describe how they participated, individually and collectively, in the revolutionary saga and how they sometimes succeeded in manipulating a political system designed to exclude them. Whatever their political loyalties, the women saw themselves as victims, and their accounts document the connection between gender and victimization. Yet they did not accept their victimization passively. The memoirists of Blood Sisters portray themselves as active participants cheering the Revolution on its course or, more frequently, resisting it." "Marilyn Yalom singles out those who authored the most unforgettable chronicles: the governess of the royal children; the servant attending Marie-Antoinette in her last days; Robespierre's sister, Charlotte; the peasant woman from the Vendee who fought as a soldier; and, of course, Mme Roland, whose autobiography has enchanted readers for centuries. Aristocrats and bourgeois women, royalists and republicans, even the few peasant and working-class women who left accounts of their experiences - all were bound together by a common nightmare." "These compelling human dramas - moving accounts of survival on the cusp of catastrophe - add suffering faces to the canvas of lofty thinkers and fiery orators who dominate the historiography of the Revolution. They tell us what it was like to suffer a miscarriage as the result of a street demonstration, to choose between nursing a baby and following a husband to war, to resist jailers' demands for sexual favors. A tragic note prevails: the sense of having survived when so many others perished often produced what we might now call "survivor's guilt." Their testimonies, Yalom argues, spring from an inner urgency to bear witness for those who were sacrificed on the revolutionary altar. Their writings eloquently attest to the human costs of radical social change. New edition published in 2015 as, "Compelled to Witness: Women's Memoirs of the French Revolution".
Considérations sur la révolution française by Madame de Staél
Call Number: DC138 .S7 1983
Published/Created: 1983
This is a reprint of the original. Translation available from General Collections. Originally published under title: Considérations sur les principaux événemens de la Révolution françoise (sic Old French spelling). Previous edition is part of the Thacher Collection FR574 Thacher, II, p.88 (French Revolution). [Considerations on the French Revolution]
De mémoire de femmes : l'histoire racontée par les femmes, de Louis XVI à 1914 by Suzanne Fiette
Call Number: DC158.8 .F538 2002
Published/Created: 2002
This books strives to let women's voices be heard without the filter of the outside scholar in order to present to the reader women's experiences as subjective and individual lives. The author presents French diaries written by women, some of whom were also significant historical figures beginning during the 1789 Revolution and continuing up until WWI. Table of Contents: L'Ancien Régime: Le Réel et l'Irréel; La Liberté et l'Exclusion; L'Époque de Napoléon: Le Sauveur, Le Génie, Le Tyran; L'Empire des Notables: L'Amalgame; 1813-1815: Nationalisme ou Libéralisme: L'Empreinte Napoléonienne; Les Faibles Racines de la Restauration: Réalisme ou Contre-Révolution; 1815-1830: L'Esprit de Parti Contres l'Union Nationale; Les Fatalités du Compromis Orléaniste; L'Après 1848: Le Monde des Temps Révolutionnaires; Conclusion: Une Histoire de Femmes. [From the Memories of Women: Stories told by Women from Louis XVI to 1914]
Diary of the French Revolution by Gouverneur Morris; Beatrix C. Davenport (Editor)
ISBN: 0836958098
Published/Created: 1977
Diary and correspondences of American statesman, Gouverneur Morris, was essentially the Ambassador to France during the Revolution. The title didn't exist as such but that was his role. He rubbed shoulders with the intellectuals and radical revolutionaries of France, and had several affairs with women. His diaries are a chronicle of the Revolution, albeit from his slanted perspective. He was present throughout the Terror and had many close encounters with the violent extremism of the time. He was more critical of the Revolution than some of his cohorts such as Jefferson and ultimately maintained Monarchical sympathies especially with consideration to what he saw as the "French character". Morris also wrote the Preamble to the United States Constitution.
Dictionnaire de la presse française pendant la Révolution, 1789-1799 : la presse départementale by Gilles Feyel
Call Number: PN5176 .D53 2005
ISBN: 2845590237
Published/Created: 2005
t. 1. Normandie, Lorraine, Alsace, Limousin, Rhône-et-Loire, Ain et Isère -- t. 2. Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardie, Champagne-Ardennes, Auvergne -- t. 3. Bretagne, Bourgogne, Franche-Comté, Midi-Pyrénées -- t. 4. Acquitaine (Dordogne, Gironde, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne et Basses-Pyrénées), Corse -- t. 5. Centre-Val de Loire (Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher et Loiret), Languedoc-Roussillon (Ardèche, Aude, Gard, Hérault, Lozère et Pyrénées-Orientales), Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Basses-Alpes, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Drôme, Var et Vaucluse) -- t. 6. Pays de la Loire : départements du Maine-et-Loire, de la Mayenne, de la Sarthe et de la Vendée
Ecrits Politiques / Olympe de Gouges by Introduction by Olivier Blanc
Call Number: DC146.G825 A3 1993
Published/Created: 1993
Introduction by Olivier Blanc. Table of Contents: Arrestation et procès d'Olympe de Gouges; Inventaire des papiers trouvés chez Olympe de Gouges; Le bon sens du Français; Lettre adressée aux Rédacteurs du Thermomètre du jour; L'esprit Français où problème à résoudre sur le labyrinthe de divers complots, par madame de Gouges; Le bon sens Français ou l'Apologie des vrais nobles, dédiée aux Jacobins; Grande Eclipse du soleil jacobiniste et de la lune feuillantine; Lettre aux Français;Lettre à la Reine, aux généraux de l'Armée, aux amis de la Constitution et aux Françaises citoyennes; Pacte national par Marie-Olympe de Gouges, adressé à l'Assemblée nationale; Lettre au Moniteur sur la mort de Gouvion; Aux Fédérés; Le Cri de l'innocence; La fierté de l'innocence, ou le silence du véritable patriotisme; Les fantômes de l'opinion publique; Réponse à la justification de Maximilien Robespierre, adressée à Jérôme Pétion, par Olympe de Gouges; Pronostic sur Maximilien Robespierre, par un animal amphibie; Portrait exact de cet animal; Correspondance de la Cour. Compte moral rendu et dernier mot à mes chers amis; Olympe de Gouges, défenseur officieux de Louis Capet; Adresse au Don Quichotte du Nord; Arrêt de Mort que présente Olympe de Gouges contre Louis Capet; Complots dévoilés des sociétaires du prétendu théâtre de la République;Olympe de Gouges à Dumouriez; Avis pressant à la Convention, par une vraie républicaine; Union, courage, surveillance, et la République est sauvée; Oeuvres de la citoyenne de Gouges, dédiées à Philippe; Testament politique d'Olympe de Gouges; Combats à mort des Trois gouvernements, par un voyageur aérien; Les trois urnes, ou le salut de la patrie, par un voyageur aérien; Une patriote persécutée à la Convention nationale; Olympe de Gouges au tribunal révolutionnaire; Invocation à la providence. [Political Works]
The French Revolution: A Document Collection by Laura Mason (Editor); Tracey Rizzo (Editor)
Call Number: DC141 .M37 2023
ISBN: 9781647920906
Published/Created: 2023
This new edition of Mason and Rizzo's anthology is a welcome addition to the study of the revolutionary and Napoleonic French Atlantic. It includes a wealth of documents related to life in metropolitan and colonial France from the middle of the eighteenth century through the Napoleonic Consulate as well as concise section overviews that detail experiences on the continent and in Saint-Domingue, France's wealthiest Caribbean colony, during this tumultuous era. These features, along with images, maps, and a detailed timeline, provide an invaluable resource for scholars and students alike. --Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Texas A&M University
The French Revolution and Human Rights by Lynn Hunt
ISBN: 0312122497
Published/Created: 1996
A selection of original translations and commentary on the debates and legislation that helped define modern notions of human rights. An overview of the French development of the concept of human rights and the consequences that resulted from putting those rights into practice. Editorial features include document headnotes, a chronology ,a selected bibliography and an index.
French Revolution [graphic] by John David Batchelder
Group of images. Mainly book illustrations and postcards. Collected ca. 1925. Batchelder, John Davis, 1872-1958, collector.
Gouverneur Morris Papers 1771-1834
Letterbooks, diaries, legal and financial papers, and miscellany relating chiefly to Morris's mission to London (1790-1791) and his service as minister to France (1792-1794) and in the U.S. Senate (1800-1803). Also includes material pertaining to Morris's work as a business agent for Robert Morris, social life in Paris, the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, Morris's New York estate Morrisania, the War of 1812, the Hartford Convention, the development of the Erie Canal, and other events of the period and financial memoranda of his wife, Anne Cary Randolph Morris.
Correspondents include William Carmichael, Lord Grenville; Alexander Hamilton; David Humphreys; Thomas Jefferson; Marie Adrienne de Noailles, marquise de Lafayette; Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette; Francis Godolphin Osborne, duke of Leeds; Robert Morris; Thomas Pinckney; William Short; and George Washington, as well as various French ministers and diplomats.
Histoire-musée de la République française depuis l'Assemblée des notables jusqu'à l'Empire by Auguste Challamel
Call Number: DC148 .C42
Published/Created: 1842
This rare treasure of a volume is part of the John Boyd Thacher Collection in the Rare Book Division, Thacher, II, p. 18 (French Revolution). There is a copy listed in the general collections as well and a full digitized version in HathiTrust. It is rich with engravings of various figures of the French Revolution including artistic representations of the sans-culotte, Necker, various women sporting wild hairstyles not to mention a fascinating interpretation of the events of the time. [History-Museum of the French Republic since the assembly of notables]
Les Femmes dans la Révolution française by EDHIS, Paris
Call Number: DC158.8 .F45 1982 FT MEADE Special Material
Published/Created: 1982
This is a reprinting of various brochures and handbills from the period 1789-1794. [The Women in the French Revolution]
Les Tracts féministes au XVIIIe siècle by Edited by Colette Michael
Call Number: HQ1616 .T73 1986
ISBN: 2051007616
Published/Created: 1986
Collection of documents originally published between 1744 and 1838. Many publications from women of the Revolutionary Time period. Table of Contents: I. Les Ecrits Masculin: M. La Coste Le Cadet; Caritat de Condorcet; Jacques-René Hébert; Charles Lacretelle II. Les Ecrites Feminins: Madame Gaston-Dufour; Madame Rigal; Madame Sophie-Rémi de Courtenai de la Fosse-Ronde; Madame Palm d'Aelders III. Les Ecrits Anonymes. Pages 1-36 available on google books.
Includes bibliographical references. [Feminist Tracts of the 18th century]
Le temps des Orages : Aristocrates, Bourgeoises et Paysannes Racontent by Marilyn Yalom
Call Number: DC158.8 .Y35 1989
ISBN: 2876040255
Published/Created: 1989
More than some books, this work attempts to give the reader an overall feel of the pace of life and the interaction between women of all backgrounds rather than separate biographies of each player. The effort is to make history less abstract and more experiential. She includes materials that give a voice to the women who did not publish great works, for example the accounts of a peasant from the Vendée who writes about the many tragic deaths in her family at the hands of Revolutionaries. These testimonies and the many illustrations create a powerful study in women of the era. Contains numerous illustrations and prints. Table of Contents: Introduction: 1789; La chute de la maison royale, vue par ses intimes; Les républicaines: Olympe de Gouges et Mme Roland; La Charité maternelle; Charlotte Robespierre; Autour de la guillotine: la vicomtesse de Fars Fausselandry et la comtesse de La Villirouët; Les Vendéennes: Renée Bordereau et la comtesse de Bonchamps; Les exilées: Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Mme de Ménerville et la marquise de La Tour du Pin; Les hommes de 1789 jugés par les femmes; Témoignages; Présentation; Extraits des Mémoires de Renée Bordereau; Souvenirs d'Élisabeth Le Bas; Testament politique d'Olympe de Gouge; Lettres d'une bourgeoise jacobine,[Rosalie Jullien] à son mari; Extrait des Mémoires de Mme de Bonchamps; Notes. Preface by Benoîte Groult [The Time of Storms: Aristocrats, Bourgeoisie and Peasants Speak]
Letters on sympathy (1798) : a critical edition by Sophie de Grouchy
Call Number: DC146.C7 A4 2008
Published/Created: 2008
Edited by Karin Brown ; letters translated by James E. McClellan III. Table of Contents: Introduction: The Letters, Their Author, and Her Times. Philosophy of Sophie de Grouchy:1. On Sympathy 2. Reason and Sentiments 3.Social and Political Philosophy 4. Morality and Happiness 5. Feminist Ethics Part II Letters on Sympathy (1798)
Letters written in France, in the summer of 1790, to a friend in England: containing various anecdotes relative to the French revolution; and memoirs of Mons. and Madame Du F--- by Helen Maria Williams
Call Number: DC169 .W72
Published/Created: 1790
This publication has countless primary sources in the form of letters. A vital resource. Available full text (see Digital Resources). Includes: Letters from France; Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France; and Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic.
Request in the Rare Book/Special Collections Reading Room
Newspapers published in France during the French Revolution
Call Number: DC140 .N49 1789
Published/Created: 1789-1800
This collection of revolutionary newspapers, fliers and pamphlets is part of a large gift to the Library and serves as an incredible resource. Original documents are held in folders and require extremely delicate handling due to their age. There are 84 documents in two archival containers. Select title examples include: L'Ami des Lois par une societé de gens de lettres; Le Bien-Informé, and L'Observateur Politique, Litteraire et Commercial. Interestingly, the months are denoted with the names from the newly created French Republican Calendar (calendrier républicain français) on most of the publications eg. Brumaire (the month meaning fog, that covered the days of October 22-November 20th). Only available in Rare Book Special Collections Reading Room (Jefferson LJ239). Arrangement: alphabetical by title. Source: Gift of Hans H. Maier, August 25, 1948.
Prison Journals during the French Revolution by Duchesse de Duras, née Noailles
Call Number: DC183.8 .D9
Published/Created: 1891
Translated by Martha Ward Carey
-- Prison life during the French revolution. -- Addenda. -- Madame Latour's memoir. -- Events of the 21st of July, 1794. -- Narrative of an eye-witness of the affair of July 22, 1794. -- Letter from Madame la duchesse de Duras, née Noailles, to Monsieur Grelet. -- Extract from the Mémorial européen, April 24, 1807.
Electronic copy from HathiTrust http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007698104
Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795 by Darline G. Levy (Editor); Harriet B. Applewhite (Editor); Mary D. Johnson (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1616 .W65
ISBN: 0252004094
Published/Created: 1979
This is an incomparable resource for students of the French Revolution-especially if they do not read French well. The editors have uncovered and translated 60 primary sources from the Revolution, including records of arrests and interrogations, correspondence and trial records, minutes from meetings of political clubs, pamphlets, petitions, and newspaper articles. There is also a thorough index of women of the Revolution including not only the more famous figures, but also the lesser-known individuals such as Audu, Léon and Lacombe. Each document is provided with an introduction and historical notes. The material is divided into six chronological sections each with a prefatory description of its defining historical events. Preview of first 60 pages available on google books (see Digital Resources). Serves as a good complement to Dominique Godineau's The Women of Paris and their French Revolution.
Writing the Revolution by Lindsay A. H. Parker
Call Number: DC146.J77 P37 2013
ISBN: 9780199931026
Published/Created: 2013
Writing the Revolution is a microhistory of a middle-class Parisian woman, Rosalie Jullien, whose nearly 1,000 familiar letters have never before been studied. The Jullien name is not new to histories of the French Revolution. Rosalie's son, Marc-Antoine, known in the family as Jules, was closely connected to the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror. However, despite being the wife and mother of revolutionary elites, Rosalie led a private life. Connected to the Revolution in very personal ways, she was also distanced from the lime light because of her gender and her proclivity for modesty. Her correspondence allows readers to enter her private world and see the intellectual, emotional, and familial life of a revolutionary in all of its complexity. The prevailing thesis in the field holds that the revolutionary elite constructed the New Regime against women, effectively excluding them from the political sphere, although nearly every existing study of women has approached the subject through oblique sources and mostly male voices. Rosalie Jullien's long missives to her husband and son, however, document her relationship to politics as she explained it. Despite never seeking a public role, Rosalie developed a political identity that included a revolutionized understanding of womanhood. Writing the Revolution builds on the innovative scholarship on the history of the family during the Revolution and demonstrates how the family sphere was revolutionized even in cases where the wife maintained a traditional family role. Jullien's correspondence boasts many values as an artifact of the Revolutionary experience, of women's lives, and of epistolary culture. Rosalie demonstrates the individual's experience within the evolving structures of a modernizing state, family, and gender identity. The period covered spans from 1775 to 1810. A portrayal of Rosalie's early married life, and the decade she spent with her husband and children in a small town north of Grenoble, begins the book, and is followed by a chapter on the couple's reading practices and their views toward religion prior to the Revolution. The heart of the research focuses on Rosalie's life and experiences in Revolutionary Paris and her decision, in the aftermath of the Terror, to emphasize private, domestic life over politics.

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