2. Writers from France

This chapter reviews 46 women writers, 1776-1848, from France, which in that period saw three revolutions and a handful of different constitutions. Some writers embraced these various revolutions; some died on the guillotine, sometimes the same people. The list ranges from poets to political philosophers, stretching from historiography to comedy, from lyric poetry to potboilers. Writers range from duchesses to proletarians, intersecting curiously with their sometimes reactionary, sometimes utopian political views.