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Congress of Allied Women on War Service (Congrès des Femmes alliées au service des œuvres de guerre) was a mass meeting of women on War Service. It was held in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées of Paris, France, on 22 August 1918. Two thousand Allied women engaged in War Service were in attendance. [1]
The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the Black March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 1789, were nearly rioting over the high price of bread.
Set during the Fronde, the novel tells the story of naive Gascon soldier, Baron des Canolles, who is torn between love for two women. [ 1 ] First translated by Samuel Springer as The War of Women for Potter Publishers, following a new French edition in 2003 it was re-translated as The Women's War in 2006 by Robin Buss.
In pre-revolutionary France, most women had little formal part in affairs outside the house. Before the revolution and the advent of feminism in France, women's official role in society consisted of providing heirs for their husbands and tending to household duties.
The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas) [2] [3] who conducted guerrilla warfare and published underground ...
The Concert of Europe began with the 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna, which was designed to bring together the "major powers" of the time in order to stabilize the geopolitics of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon in 1813–1814, and contain France's power after the war following the French Revolution. [16]
PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday Europe should prepare for war if it wants peace, calling President Vladimir Putin's Russia an adversary that would not stop in ...
Women in the French Resistance played an important role in the context of resistance against occupying German forces during World War II. Women represented 15 to 20% of the total number of French Resistance fighters within the country. [citation needed] Women also represented 15% of political deportations to Nazi concentration camps. [citation ...