role of women in French Revolution
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Women had no political rights in pre-Revolutionary France; they could not vote or hold any political office. ... The highly influential Encyclopédie in the 1750s set the tone of the Enlightenment, and its ideas exerted influence on the subsequent Revolution in France.
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@ The role of women in the French Revolution
>> During the revolutionary years women were active participants:
>> In order to discuss and voice their interests they started their own political clubs and newspapers.
>> About 60 women's clubs emerged in different French cities, the most famous being the Society of Revolutionary and Republic Women.
>> They wanted to enjoy the some rights as men i.e., right to vote , to be elected to the Assembly and to hold political office.
>> Women's struggle for equal political rights during the late 19th and 20th centuries. Finally in 1946, French women won the right to vote.