Analysis of Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen documents
Can you read Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen documents from French Revolution and Human Rights books and answer these questions?
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is page 12-15, 68-75
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen 115-128
All of the pages that needed to answer the questions will be send .
- In a brief paragraph identify the CONTEXT for the documents—the who, what, when, where, and why.
In a second paragraph, use the documents to address the following questions:
- Bring the documents together to evaluate the main concerns of different revolutionary constituencies—how did different people view the aims of the period as expressed in these documents?
- What does the de Gouges document reveal about the revolution? What does her document expose about various people’s hopes/desires/expectations/concerns at this time?
- How might a person’s view of the revolution be shaped by not having the document from de Gouges? In other words, if one only had the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, what might one think about this period?How does the de Gouges document complicate things?
