femme et de la citoyenne based upon the Declaration of the Rights of Man by Rousseau. A sense of collective power of women was emerging due to active participation in the Revolution. However, women understood themselves to be auxiliary supporters of the revolution - "knitting and sewing for the army," (Moses 12). Unfortunately for the emerging movement, the outbreak of war that the French began, out of fear of foreign invasion, on April 20, 1792, caused a return to conservatism in French society. In 1793, the Jacobins had a coup ousting the Girondins, becoming the government, "one and indivisible," (Wolf 122). The consolidation of Jacobin rule brought with it a tightening of the connection between law, order, masculine virtue and sexual difference (Scott 67). In 1793 the Constitution granted universal male suffrage, and the Socit des Rpublicaines-Rvolutionaires, one of the first groups of women formed to fight for female suffrage, protested. However, the emerging French feminist movement found itself on the opposing side of the government of the Terror. One outspoken crusader for women's rights, Throigne de Mricourt was publicly whipped and suffered a mental breakdown. Olympe de Gouges was guillotined on November 1st because she was found guilty of treason. The Socit des Rpublicaines-Rvolutionaires was shut down in the same year it was formed. After the Reign of the Terror, the feminist movement was considerably weakened. After Madame de Stal published Delphine in 1802 and Corinne in 1809, no further political expression of feminism existed for nearly three decades (Moses 14). Women had seized the reigns of the Revolution, only to be thrown off the horse. In speaking out with an active voice, the status quo responded with the guillotine. Because of this, women would continue to hold a role of subjugation in nineteenth century France.Women Under the Napoleonic Code and 19th Century Romanticism With the aid of his brother Luci...
