Women in the French Revolution

Marie Antoinette was Queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI from 10 May 1774 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1792. She was beheaded in 1793, during the Reign of Terror, a period of political violence in the French Revolution.

Genevan-French author (1766-1817)

French playwright and political activist (1748–1793)

French revolutionary

figure of the French Revolution (1768-1793)

food riot and march by market-women during the French Revolution

feminist critique of the Declaration of the Rights of Man

French revolutionary (1762-1817)

French actor, revolutionary, women's rights activist

French revolutionary

Dutch feminist and spy

French writer, editor

French royalist

how women shared in the French Revolution and what long-term impact it had on French women

French feminist (1768-1838)

French visionary (1716-1794)

French writer

French revolutionary (1768-1832)

Belgian soldier (1757-1840)

Tricoteuse () is French for a knitting woman. The term is most often used in its historical sense as a nickname for the women in the French Revolution who sat in the gallery supporting the left-wing politicians in the National Convention, attended the meetings in the Jacobin club, the hearings of the Revolutionary Tribunal, and sat beside the guillotine during public executions, supposedly continuing to knit. The performances of the Tricoteuses were particularly intense during the Reign of Terror.

French writer

French Revolution political club

Wife of Georges Jacques Danton

French salonnière

French fruit seller

French revolutionary

French counter revolutionary

French hostess and socialite (1772 – 1830)

French revolutionary organization

French aristocrat (1768-1823)

French counter-revolutionary (1742-1823)