|
|
|
|
|
 |
is an introduction to the French Revolution and an archive of important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including more than 300 texts, nearly 250 images, and a number of maps and songs. Ten essays explore the major topics in the history of the revolution, including its social causes, the fall of the monarchy, women and the revolution, the story of Napoleon, and the legacies of the Revolution. (George Mason University, National Endowment for the Humanities)
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Women participated in virtually every aspect of the French Revolution, but their participation almost always proved controversial. Women's status in the family, society, and politics had long been a subject of polemics. In the eighteenth century, those who favored improving the status of women insisted primarily on women's right to an education (rather than on the right to vote, for instance, which few men enjoyed). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Exuberant executioner |
|
|
|
Privacy 
