FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Roman Catholics
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women
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middle-class professionals
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retired soldiers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Women gained quite a number of rights in the first years of the Revolution, between 1789 and 1793. The revolutionary legislators granted them a proper civil status: civil rights and a legal identity of their own. To sum up, women were no longer underage individuals under the law.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most active advocates for women’s rights were women who had been associated with the Saint Simonian and Fourierist movements of the 1830s: Eugenie Niboyet, Jeanne Deroin, Suzanne Voilquin, Desirée Gay, and Pauline Roland.
Detailed explanation-3: -As moderate republicans, the Thermidorians tried to calm down the Revolution and closed most Jacobin clubs across France. These events triggered the right-wing royalist and anti-revolutionary First White Terror, especially aimed against Montagnards and Jacobins in the Rhône valley and southern Brittany.
Detailed explanation-4: -Women were considered the possessions of men, father, husband, and state. And they were assumed to cook, fetch water, line-up for bread, and look after children.