Question

what was the role of women before during and after the french revolution

Answer 1

Despite the major changes in society that occur in 1792 through the inauguration of the First Republic, women are pretty much left aside from all the evolution of citizenship at the beginning.

They are never mentionned in the Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789
The ideal woman, even for the male philosophers of the Révolution, is the mother that will bring young bright future “sans-culottes” citizens into the world.
They are also seen as guardians of “morality” and “virtue” that were the premises of the Révolution.