1. Women in France
They staged demonstrations and food riots, presented petitions to the National Assembly, and brought the royal family back to the governmental capital. ... The majority of men believed that women's participation in government was both unnecessary and redundant. ... The cahiers des doleances, May 1789, served as the first opportunity for the women of France, along with the rest of the country, to share their grievances. ... Anger with their passive role in constructing the cahiers, irritated with the municipal government, annoyed with the stalled constitutional revolution, and fed up with...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate