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Contrary to common belief, women were important contributors to the popular movement during the French Revolution. They staged demonstrations and food riots, presented petitions to the National Assembly, and brought the royal family back to the governmental capital. They agitated ceaselessly for the political and civil rights that they deserved, and backed up their demands with well-thought-out logical arguments. The women of 18th century France pioneered through uncharted ideological, political, and social grounds, but their …

…s, could both bare children and make political decisions or could provide for their own families and be conscious of the needs of the rest of the country. When women broke out of the traditional mold and used their newfound rights for purposes other than to converse with their mates and educate their children, they found themselves right where they'd started, pushed back into the home and the suffocating embrace of their husbands and fathers.