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The execution of Corday and the larger fall of the Girdonists not only led directly to the Terror, but also spelled an end for the revolution’s feminist movement.

Many feminists had connections to moderate factions, while others had their loyalty called into doubt based on their writing or extremism. On October 30th – after several brawls between the Revolutionary Republican Women and market women – the Jacobins dissolved the Society and banned all women’s organizations, stating that women belonged in the home.

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Olympe de Gouges, who distrusted Robespierre and was an early critic of his rising extremism, was imprisoned for three months, denied a lawyer, and guillotined on 2nd November. Six days later Madame Roland met the same fate as part of the Girdonist purge.

Théroigne de Méricourt had left politics several months before when a mob of Jacobin-allied women stripped her na