Liberty: the Lives And Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
“Although women’s fashions also reflected the fervid patriotism of the era, women, as passive citizens, had no such public obligation. But throughout the hot, delirious summer of 1793, the Société des Républicaines-Révolutionnaires, led by Léon and Lacombe, had taken to roaming through the capital and accosting women who were not wearing tricolour rosettes–women who, they claimed, were implicitly counterrevolutionary because they did not sport their politics on their shoulders. During the Societ...y’s meeting observed by Pierre-Joseph-Alexis Roussel and Lord Bedford, the only decision the républicaines-révolutionnaires actually made was to send a petition to the Convention requesting that a law be passed forcing all women to wear them.Their aggressive tactics simply scared most women–bands of ferocious women dressed as sans-culottes were just another reason to stay off the streets in 1793–but the républicaines-révolutionnaires’ antagonists, the poissardes of Les Halles, were enraged by their bullying as well as by the fact that by transferring their headquarters to Saint-Eustache they had moved on to their territory.MoreLess
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