Women, the Sans-Culottes and the Limits of Revolutionary Change

What this note covers

1. 1. Setting the Scene: Who Were Women and the Sans-Culottes?
2. 2. Women's Participation: Beyond the March to Versailles
3. 3. Olympe de Gouges and the Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
4. 4. The Sans-Culottes: Political Power and its Limits
5. 5. The Backlash: October 1793 and the Suppression of Women's Political Life
6. 6. Thermidor and After: Continuity Confirmed
7. 7. Evaluating Change vs. Continuity: A Historian's Toolkit

7 sections · 14 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes