Women And Women During The French Revolution - 1413 Words

During the French Revolution, namely 1789, men and women were both dealing with change in government, society, and many different aspects of life. Two documents that represent the rights of men and women are Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and The Vindication of the Rights of Woman. These two documents are similar in content because they describe how men and women should be treated as equals in society. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen came first, and sparked the interest of reformers all around, leading to The Vindication of the Rights of Woman. These two documents tell us that the French Revolution obviously had a divide within gender and race. First, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and†¦show more content†¦The author of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was technically the Government of France. This document expressed the liberal and universal ideas of the Enlightenment (Perry, 110). The idea and motiva tion of the declaration came partly from the ideas of the American Revolution and from General Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson. This document was largely influenced by the ideas of natural rights and altogether, the intended audience would be the citizens of France in which the declaration and its contents were pertaining to. The articles in the document establish sovereignty within the French people, and made apparent that everyone was a Frenchman, and equal (Sherman, 521). In return, the French people favored the declaration; however a good amount of the nobles and king did not. As for the contents of the document, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, they were basically a list of rights, set up just like the Bill of Rights. Here is a general overview of the list of rights in the declaration: â€Å"men are born and remain free; preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; the nation is the source of all sovereignty, and no individual can be en titled to any authority not derived from it; Political Liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another; the law should prohibit only actions harmful to society; the law is an expression of the will of the community; no man should be accused,