HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Olympe De Gouges, Grapeshot, Mary Wollstonecraft
5 Apr 2018
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Erosion of loyalty (to the church, to the king) Individual rights (speech, religion etc) and freedom from arbitrary authority. Abolition of distinctions of rank between european men. Did not believe in racial or gender equality. Revolutionary enthusiasm spreading throughout (red cap of liberty, calling each other citizen ) endless passionate discussion and debate, popular expression of new order (festivals of reason) Loyalty to the nation (as citizens not subjects of a king) birth of nationalism. Olympe de gouge, declaration of the rights of woman and citizen. Mary wollstonecraft, a vindication of the rights of woman. Participation of women in everyday parts of revolutions (debates, etc) But women never given the vote legacy of nation and nationalism . 1792: trying to end terror by executing robespierre. Stopped mass executions, closed jacobin clubs, broke up sans-culotte organizations. 1769 : whiff of grapeshot crushed attempted royalist coup. Attached himself to jacobins during the revolutions.
