Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France by Lucy Moore
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Overview: ‘Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights,’ declared Olympe de Gouges in 1791. Throughout the French Revolution women, inspired by a longing for liberty and equality, played a vital role in stoking the fervour and idealism of those years. In her compelling history of the Revolution, Lucy Moore paints a vivid portrait of six extraordinary women who risked everything for the chance to exercise their ambition and make their mark on history…
At the heart of Paris’s intellectual movement, Germaine de Staël was a figure like no other. Passionate, fiercely intelligent and as consumed by love affairs and politics, she helped to write the 1791 Constitution at the salon in which she entertained the great thinkers of the age. At the other end of the social scale, her working-class counterparts patrolled the streets of Paris with pistols in their belts. Théroigne de Méricourt was an unhappy courtesan when she fell in love with revolutionary ideals. Denied a political role because of her sex, she nevertheless campaigned tirelessly until a mob beating left her broken in both mind and body. Later came the glittering merveilleuses, whose glamour, beauty and propensity for revealing outfits propelled them to the top of post-revolutionary society. Exuberant, decadent Thérésia Tallien reportedly helped engineer Robespierre’s downfall – in so doing, she and her fellow ‘sans-chemises’ ushered in a new world that combined sexual license with the amorality of the new Republic.
Writing with vigour and sympathy, Lucy Moore reanimates the lives of six remarkable women from these three very different segments of French society. Through their lives, loves and failures, the wider history of the Revolution receives a compassionate retelling that illuminates not only the brief, hopeful period in which equality seemed within reach, but also the ways in which they were betrayed.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies
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