1. What does this image tell you about Revolutionary French ideas about women? Liberty Leading the People: Eugene DelaCroix

2. Why did Napoleonic Code exclude women?
Aim:
Why did Napoleonic Code exclude women?

3. Women in the Revolution3
Women of all classes participated in the revolution from the very beginning.
Many women were very disappointed when the Declaration of the Rights of Man did not grant equal citizenship to women.
Women did gain some rights for a time. However, these did not last long after Napoleon gained power.

4. Women participating in French Revolution bread riots.

5. Olympe De Gouges, 1791

6. Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791 Written by Olympe De Gouges, 1791
 Mothers, daughters, sisters [and] representatives of the nation demand to be constituted into a national assembly. Believing that ignorance, omission, or scorn for the rights of woman are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments, [the women] have resolved to set forth a solemn declaration the natural, inalienable, and sacred rights of woman in order that this declaration, constantly exposed before all members of the society, will ceaselessly remind them of their rights and duties…

7. Why weren’t women “given” their rights?
Social Did women have a lot of power socially? Was the Declaration of the Rights of women adopted by radicals? Political Did women have political representation? Why would their rights be supported/encouraged? Economic Did women own property

8. Read portion of Napoleonic Code:
In a group of three, write how: What was women’s realm? How did women react to the code? Would the enlightenment philosophers have supported this code or been against it (why)?