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Anne Félicité Colombe
Anne Félicité Colombe (1760-1843), was a French printer and publisher, and a political activist during the French Revolution. She published the radical journals ''L'Ami du Peuple'' and ''l'Orateur du Peuple''.Dominique Godineau: The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution' She was the owner and proprietor of the Henri IV printshop at the Place Dauphine in Paris. She was a newspaper publisher and participated in the public debate during the revolution. She published Jean-Paul Marat, Jean-Paul Marat's journal ''L'Ami du Peuple'' (1790), which caused her newspapers to be seized and she was interrogated as to where Marat could be found. After the Massacre at the Champ-de-Mars, Champ-de-Mars fusillade, she was one of four women to be arrested on 17 July 1791. She had militant revolutionary sympathies, and was a prominent member of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women in 1793. She was described as generous, and after she was acquitted from the libel lawsuit of 1790, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century French Women Writers
The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russia and China. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century French Women Journalists
The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russia and China. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
