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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

Pro Revolutionary Women

Anti revolutionary Women

  • 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
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