The Women of the French Revolution: From Salons to Guillotine

When we think of the French Revolution, we picture men: Robespierre, Danton, Marat. But women were central to shaping its course — as salonnières who set the intellectual stage, as market women who dragged the king back to Paris, as writers demanding equal rights, and finally as victims of the Terror. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the extraordinary roles of women like Olympe de Gouges, who penned the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen before being sent to the guillotine; Charlotte Corday, who assassinated Marat in his bath; the Parisian market women whose October March forced the royal family from Versailles; and the influential salon of Madame Roland, whose political salon became a hub for the Girondins. They also examine the brutal fate of women who stepped beyond prescribed roles, the revolutionary government's crackdown on female political clubs, and the complex legacy of women's participation in the Revolution — a story of empowerment cut short, but whose echoes shaped feminist movements for centuries. #FrenchRevolution #WomenInHistory #OlympeDeGouges #CharlotteCorday #MadameRoland #MarchOnVersailles #Salonnières #DeclarationOfTheRightsOfWoman #Terror #Girondins #Marat #OctoberDays #Feminism #History #FexingoHistory #EuropeanHistory #18thCentury #RevolutionaryWomen Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo