Women's Role in the French Revolution
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Women's Role in the French Revolution
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- Diapositiva: 1
- WOMEN'S MARCH ON VERSAILLES
- Hundreds of women marched the 12 miles from Paris to Versailles in the rain. They hoped to voice their plight to the royal family and demand change.
- Diapositiva: 2
- BREAD SHORTAGE / ROYAL FAMILY PLOTTING RUMORS
- Major bread shortages and rumors of the royal family plotting a counterrevolution pushed working-class women to the brink. Their frustration turned to action.
- Diapositiva: 3
- KING / QUEEN LEAVE PALACE
- Things quickly got out of control at Versailles. The women were joined by men. They broke into the palace and killed two guards. The King and Queen agreed to leave their palace and live in their home in Paris. They would never return to Versailles.
- Diapositiva: 4
- DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
- Inspired by the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen promised French men Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. The problem: it neglected women!
- Diapositiva: 5
- OLYMPE DE GOUGES
- Declaration of the Rights of Woman
- Writing under the pen-name Olympe De Gouges, Marie Gauze showed how women had been excluded from the promises made in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen by publishing the Declaration of the Rights of Woman.
- Diapositiva: 6
- EXECUTION
- Attention:Let it be known that Marie Gauze is a traitor and an enemy of France and is hereby sentenced to death on November 3, 1793.
- In 1793, De Gouges was labeled an agitator and an enemy of the Revolution. She was executed for these crimes.
- Diapositiva: 7
- CHARLOTTE CORDAY - ASSASSINATION OF MARAT
- Corday did not approve of the intolerant, violent nature of the revolution. Marat published an inflammatory newspaper called The Friend of the People which called for people to kill those who were critical of the revolution. Corday gained access to his home and killed him in his bathtub.
- Diapositiva: 8
- L'AMI DU PEUPLE
- Jean-Paul Marat's revolutionary newspaper, L'Ami du Peuple, frequently promoted violence as a way to further the revolution.
- Diapositiva: 9
- MURDERED
- Charlotte Corday helped shut down the newspaper, but was executed by guillotine for the murder of Marat.
- Diapositiva: 10
- MARIE ANTOINETTE
- Marie Antoinette was the unpopular Austrian wife of Louis XVI. Her ever-increasing spending on luxury items earned her the nickname Madame Deficit.
- Diapositiva: 11
- UNINTERESTED IN HUSBAND
- Let me tell you about my hunting trip....
- What a bore!
- Marie Antoinette was from Austria. She was not interested in her husband, Louis XVI, and distracted herself with gambling, parties, and fashion.
- Diapositiva: 12
- MURDERED
- The Queen is a traitor! She must die!
- Less than a year after her husband was executed, the unpopular queen was a victim of the guillotine herself.
- Diapositiva: 0
- The Queen feasts while we starve!!
Attribuzioni Immagine
- Rebull, La muerte de Marat - Joaquín Martínez Rosado - (Licenza Attribution )
- Versailles 2012 - contemplicity - (Licenza Attribution )
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