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  2. Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen

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    First page of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 14 September 1791 by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the 1789 Declaration of ...

  3. Louise Michel - Wikipedia

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    When it is a hydra, only the Revolution can kill it". She took the view that it is best if the leaders of such a revolution would perish, so that the people would not be burdened with surviving general staff. Michel thought that "power is evil" and in her mind history was the story of free people being enslaved. [51]

  4. Feminism in France - Wikipedia

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    In the English-speaking world, the term "French feminism" refers to a branch of theories and philosophies by and about women that emerged in the 1970s to the 1990s. These ideas have run parallel to and sometimes in contradistinction to the political feminist movement in France but is often referred to as "French feminist theory," distinguished ...

  5. Anti-French sentiment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the Southern United States, some Americans were anti-French for white supremacist reasons. For example, John Trotwood Moore , a Southern novelist and local historian who served as the State Librarian and Archivist of Tennessee from 1919 to 1929, lambasted the French for "intermarrying with the Indians and treating them as equals" during the ...

  6. Legislative Assembly (France) - Wikipedia

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    The Legislative Assembly (French: Assemblée législative) was the legislature of the Kingdom of France from 1 October 1791 to 20 September 1792 during the years of the French Revolution. It provided the focus of political debate and revolutionary law-making between the periods of the National Constituent Assembly and of the National Convention ...

  7. Opinion: French women got a wakeup call on abortion rights ...

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    French feminists fighting for abortion rights are working to secure a necessary right for women’s freedom and bodily autonomy, but they’re also taking an important step to protect their nation ...

  8. Women's Petition to the National Assembly - Wikipedia

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    However, they were angered that women would be left out of being given rights and being able to partake in the reshaping of their country. They showed the inconsistency and hypocrisy of the Declaration: "You have broken the scepter of despotism, you have pronounced the beautiful axiom [that] . . . the French are a free people.

  9. Women won the right to vote 100 years ago. What Pelosi and ...

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    One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.