Blood sisters: the French Revolution in women's memory

Introduction : memory and memoirs

The year 1789, in women's words

The fall of the royal family : witnessed by the Duchesse de Tourzel

The king and the queen in the face of death : witnessed by Madame Royale and Rosalie Lamorlière

The republic vindicated and violated : starring Madame Roland

The other Robespierre

The widow Le Bas

Germaine de Staël's Considerations of the French Revolution

Plights and ploys in the provinces : Madame Vallon and Alexandrine des Écherolles

The women of the Vendée

Exile : London, St. Petersburg and upstate New York

Reflections, personal and political.