Describe the role of women in France before the French revolution?
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Before French revolution women are child baring machines.
Women played a large part in the French Revolution. For the most part, women supported the plans and efforts of the men who were leading the revolution. In the cities, bourgeois women formed their own revolutionary groups. The October 1789 march on Versailles consisted largely of women. It was women who were rioting in the bakeries and grocers’ shops. They worked to help the poor in whatever ways they could. They only attended Masses said by priests who supported the Revolution. A woman’s linens were her dowry, some of her most prized possessions intended to last a lifetime, but many women donated their linens to be used for soldiers’ bandages. In one town, women contributed their wedding rings to raise funds to purchase clothing for soldiers. Some compared women revolutionaries to tigresses and vultures eager for blood. But when women requested their own rights and submitted The Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen to the National Convention, they were told women had no part to play in France’s new order.