Women's citizenship in France in the eighteenth century

Abstract

Women's political action during the French Revolution was silenced in classical history.
Even though they did not obtain the right to vote nor to be voted, they practiced a type
of military citizenship, rushing the event through direct interventions and they did not stop
demanding the right to bare arms, which was a sign of their political participation. The weight
of the Roman rights and the exclusive political theories that concerned the active and passive
citizenship left without an institutional effect this military practice.