She greeted the Revolution as the dawning of necessary change, only to discover that the égalité of the philosophes was conceived by those men elected to the Convention to be a right exclusively ...

The French social activist, feminist and playwright who fell out of favour with fellow revolutionaries and was executed at the guillotine. Show more She fought to give women the right to divorce and ...

Four women will lose their heads in Norfolk this week. Old Dominion University will stage “The Revolutionists,” a comedy set during the French Revolution that explores themes of violence, art, ...

She fought to give women the right to divorce and campaigned on behalf of children born out of wedlock. But in late 18th century France, her radical thinking proved too much for her contemporaries in ...