Does anyone know what the main aftermath of the french Revolution was for Europe particularly women.?
It was all about universal MALE suffrage really. A few women early on (e.g. Theroigne de Mericourt, Mary Wollstonecraft) felt the idea of freedom would also free women, but it didn’t really. The Code Napoleon was pretty anti-women (Boney and Josephine were probably falling out when he was writing it) and this formed the basis for law in several other “liberal” countries too. It was better for families inside France – for example before the Revolution there was the “gabelle” salt tax – you had to buy loads of salt from the local aristo whether you needed it or not, at more or less whatever price he felt like. You also had to work in the fields or even mending roads for him a few days a year for no wages (“corvee”) – including women! (For comparison, England had packed feudalism in in 1600 – people did get in the squire’s harvest but he had to supply free food and ale or cider to get people to do it – much more civilised!) After the revolution none of that – though in return your man cou
