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When the Versaillais took over Paris, the fate of the women was no different from that of the men: execution on the spot or summary judgment. [37] 4,000 women were killed, for a total of 20,000 victims. [26] 1,051 women were imprisoned [46] and judged by the 4th Council of War. [54]
Women in Paris (5 C, 11 P) C. People related to the Comédie-Française (3 C, 7 P) Criminals from Paris (20 P) E. Ethnic groups in Paris (3 C, 3 P) L. People ...
picture from Les Français sous la Révolution by Augustin Challamel & Wilhelm Ténint. The Incroyables (French: [ɛ̃kʁwajabl], "incredibles") and their female counterparts, the Merveilleuses (French: [mɛʁvɛjøz], "marvelous women"), were members of a fashionable aristocratic subculture in Paris during the French Directory (1795–1799).
The Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Société des Amis des droits de l'homme et du citoyen [sɔsjete dez‿ami de dʁwa də lɔm e dy sitwajɛ̃]), mainly known as Cordeliers Club (French: Club des Cordeliers [klœb de kɔʁdəlje]), was a populist political club during the French Revolution from 1790 to ...
General; constitutional monarchist, co-wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Claire Lacombe: Feminist revolutionary, founder of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women. Alexandre-Théodore, comte de Lameth: Leading Feuillant; formed "Triumvirate" with Barnave and Duport; eventually emigrated. Charles Malo ...
In Paris, hostility was growing between the elected republican mayors, including Clemenceau, who believed that they were legitimate leaders of Paris, and the Central Committee of the National Guard. [42] On 22 March, the day before the elections, the Central Committee declared that it, not the mayors, was the legitimate government of Paris. [43]
François Hollande, former PS (Socialist Party) leader, former French president (15 May 2012 – 14 May 2017) Jean Jaurès, politician, pacifist; Lionel Jospin, socialist, former prime minister; Bernard Kouchner, founder of Médecins du Monde; Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme right party in France, Front National, presidential candidate
About 90,000 Parisians, men, women and often children, earned their living as manual workers. According to an 1807 survey by the prefect of police, the largest number worked in the food trades; there were 2250 bakers, 608 pastry chefs, 1269 butchers, 1566 restaurateurs, 16,111 lemonadiers, and 11,832 grocers, and many more in more specialized ...