The great symbolic gesture of the French Revolution was the insistence that aged progression of rights the managed promotion of passive citizens to the.
Revolutionaries had dissolved the French monarchy in September 1792 between "active" and "passive" citizens
For women the legacy of the French Revolution was contradictory: a constitution
Revolutionaries had dissolved the French monarchy in September 1792 between "active" and "passive" citizens
Revolutionaries had dissolved the French monarchy in September 1792 between "active" and "passive" citizens
French revolutionary leaders insisting upon the principles of equality before the law and the idea of Jews living in France as passive citizens; rather.
during the French Revolution of 1789 and the Paris Commune of 1870. which sets out the initial constitutional definition of active and passive citizens.
The French Revolutionary Constitution of 1791 made women citizens of a kind if only "passive" citizens
the beginning "passive citizens" (women
of the French Revolution. Lasting from 1795-1799 its legacy is marked by political stagnation and boundless social disarray. The growing divide between the
The French Revolution is generally taken as the advent of European populardemocracy Proclaiming that all public authority derives from the consent ofthe governed the revolutionaries reconfigured national and local administra-tion to the principle of popular sovereignty
and “passive” citizens All male Frenchmen over 25 were citizens However unless one paid 3 days’ unskilled wages in taxes one was a passive citizen and ineligible to vote Active citizens could vote for the primary assembly To be eligible for the secondary assemblies which actually elected deputies one had to pay 10 days’ wages
Women and the Revolution Women participated in virtually every aspect of the French Revolution but their participation almost always proved controversial Women's status in the family society and politics had long been a subject of polemics In the eighteenth century those who favored improving the status of women insisted primarily on women's
• The revolution spun out of control during this period and became violent as mob rule came in to effect The Paris Commune drove the Girondins out of Paris and the country descended into civil war • In an attempt to restore order the government created the C O P S and began to scare/intimidate anyone