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  2. Women in France - Wikipedia

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    The roles of women in France have changed throughout history. ... Journal of Women's History 28.4 (2016): 134–143, deals with French nuns in 19th century.

  3. Feminism in France - Wikipedia

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    e. Feminism in France is the history of feminist thought and movements in France. Feminism in France can be roughly divided into three waves: First-wave feminism from the French Revolution through the Third Republic which was concerned chiefly with suffrage and civic rights for women. Significant contributions came from revolutionary movements ...

  4. Category:19th-century French women - Wikipedia

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    Category. : 19th-century French women. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 19th-century women of France. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:19th-century French people. It includes French people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. 14th.

  5. Women in the French Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Women in the French Revolution. In Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix, Lady Liberty leads the people of the French Revolution of 1830. Historians since the late 20th century have debated how women shared in the French Revolution and what impact it had on French women. Women had no political rights in pre-Revolutionary France; they ...

  6. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the ...

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    1803. United Kingdom: Lord Ellenborough's Act was enacted, making abortion after quickening a capital crime, and providing lesser penalties for the felony of abortion before quickening. [1][2] 1804. Sweden: Women are granted the permit to manufacture and sell candles. [3] France: Divorce is abolished for women in 1804.

  7. La Païva - Wikipedia

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    La Païva. Esther Lachmann (French: [ɛstɛʁ laʃman]; better known as La Païva (French: [la paiva]); 7 May 1819 – 21 January 1884) was the most famous of the 19th-century French courtesans. [1] A notable investor and architecture patron, and a collector of jewels, she had a personality so hard-bitten that she was described as the "one ...

  8. George Sand - Wikipedia

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    George Sand. Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil[1] (French: [amɑ̃tin lysil oʁɔʁ dypɛ̃]; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (French: [ʒɔʁʒ (ə) sɑ̃d]), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. [2][3] One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, [4] being more renowned ...

  9. Flora Tristan - Wikipedia

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    Nationality. French. Occupation. Writer. Flore Célestine Thérèse Henriette Tristán y Moscoso (7 April 1803 – 14 November 1844), better known as Flora Tristan, was a French-Peruvian writer and socialist activist. [1] She made important contributions to early feminist theory, and argued that the progress of women's rights was directly ...