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Article: Defending the queen: Wollstonecraft and Stael on the politics of sensibility and feminine difference.(Mary Wollstonecraft, Germaine de Stael)
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- Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
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- March 22, 2002
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I shall therefore only speak of that verdict, analyzing the political, in telling what I have seen, what I know of the queen, and in depicting the hideous circumstances which have led to her condemnation. (1)
GERMAINE DE STAEL, Reflections on the Trial of the Queen, by a Woman, August 1793
STAEL'S essay in defense of Marie Antoinette at the time of her trial was initially published anonymously as authored only "by a woman." Stael's identification of herself as a woman is significant. The Revolutionary criminal Tribunal, consisting of a male jury and nine male judges, ultimately decided Marie Antoinette's fate, yet the lower-class women of Paris were ...
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