Women in the French Revolution

Galina Serebryakova, who is known to Turkish readers with her novel Stealing the Fire, previously published by our publishing house, tells the prominent heroines of the 1789 Great French Revolution period, again through novel fiction, as in Stealing the Fire. Robespierre, Danton, Marat, St. Petersburg, who played a role in the Great French Revolution. Heroes such as Just, Camille Desmoulins are known to everyone. However, women who played an important role in the revolution, sometimes openly and sometimes behind the scenes, are equally unknown. Serebryakova draws portraits of the most important women who played a positive or negative role in the revolution. Madame Rolland, the secret leader of the Girondins who was beheaded on the guillotine, Charlotte Corday, the murderer of Marat, actress Claire Lacombe, the leader of the slum women, and her friend Pauline Leon, Lucile Desmoulins, whose ordinary life changed after marrying Camille Desmoulins, and the honorable Elizabeth Lebas, who believed in Robespierre's cause. Thus, the colorful lives of Jacobin Theroigne Mericourt, whose sister Elenor Duplay rode her horse to the Palace of Versailles wearing men's clothes on her back, come to light. But these are not the only ones. Aristocratic women such as Josephine Bonaparte, Madame Dubarry, and Theresa Tallien, who was once a Robesspierre and once a Napoleon supporter, and who was declared a hero of the revolution when she was close to the guillotine, are among the women whose portraits are drawn in the book.


Thin Cover:

Number of Pages: 208

Year of Printing: 1998


eBook:

Number of Pages: 157

Year of Printing: 1998


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Evrensel Basim Number of

Publication Pages: 208

Year of First Printing: 1998

Language: Turkish