Tale of Two Cities Book 3 Ch. 3 & 4
By Carli Stein and Annabel Personeni
Chapter 4: Calm in Storm
Chapter 3: The Shadow
Impact of Women in the French Revolution
- Olympe de Gouges
- wrote a number of plays, short stories, and novels
- emphasized that women and men are different-- women still deserve equality under the law
- "Declaration on the Rights of Woman"
- women deserved rights : divorce and recognition of illegitimate children
- On October 5th, 1789, at The March on Versailles 4000 rioters, mostly women, stormed Louis XVI's castle and forced the royal family to move to the Tuileries
- The action of women to protect the revolution are called the October days
- Some women opposed the dissolution of the Catholic Church
- Others opposed the formation of revolutionary cults
- the Cult of the Supreme Being-- a form of deism established in France by Maximilien Robespierre
- Led to de-Christianization .
- It was intended to become the state religion of the new French Republic