#france '87

[vintageurovision]

Christine Minier representing France in the Eurovision Song Contest Concours Eurovision de la Chanson 1987, with the song "Les mots d'amour n'ont pas de dimanche"

[deutschland-im-krieg]

Junkers Ju 87B Stukas, invasion of France, 29 May 1940. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

[chutty2thiq]

ALL ABOUT CHUT

Hey, birdies! This is for you, so you can get to crow me better! Ha-ha!

Full legal name: Chutty Qwuiquie Slutovich

Home address: Tumblebook Library, North Plotly Street

Relationship status: Happily married to my main crow @crowyscornerxx

State of wellness: Unrelenting

Favorite type of animal: The North Austrian ground snail (Hemetomaphosphaticlitoris)

Home country: France, Russia, Chad, the United States of America, Latvia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Mongol Empire, Uzbekistan

Favorite holiday: St. Petersburg

Politics: Opinions of laws and the administration

Favorite past job: Assistant to Genghis Khan

Favorite flavor: Chartreuse

FAQ

Q: Hey, Chutty! Have you ever traveled outside the country?

A: No!

Q: Do you have some marijuana I can borrow?

A: Sorry, all out of stock!

Q: How is Genghis Khan doing nowadays?

A: Swimmingly!

[penelopegarciasapprentice]

19 total

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

[inwokewetrust1981]

Lebron James Gets Dunked On By Yabusele 🏀🔥😱

Guerschon Yabusele dunks on LeBron James

[aigle-suisse]

Rochechouart, Haute-Vienne par Marie-Hélène Cingal Via Flickr : Le château de Rochechouart est un château situé dans le Limousin (Haute-Vienne), au-dessus du confluent de la Graine et de la Vayres, construit initialement au xiie siècle et qui comporte également des parties du xve siècle. La dynastie des vicomtes de Rochechouart en a été propriétaire de la création du château à sa vente à l'État français au xixe siècle. Le château de Rochechouart est depuis un musée d'art contemporain et la sous-préfecture de Haute-Vienne. L'histoire du château commence vers l'an 1000 par la fortification par les vicomtes de Limoges d'un éperon rocheux dominant la Graine1. Le château, dont le donjon date du xiie siècle, et la majorité du bâtiment du xve siècle, est situé au-dessus du confluent de la Graine et de la Vayres dans la commune de Rochechouart. Jusqu'en 1470, la châtellenie est le fief d’une branche cadette des vicomtes de Limoges. De l'ancienne forteresse il ne subsiste plus que le châtelet d'entrée à pont-levis qui conserve une des tours du xiiie siècle. Pendant la Révolution, on essaie de démolir le château. Les révolutionnaires ne réussirent qu'à démolir le sommet des deux tours qui encadrent la façade sud-est1. Le château est acheté par le département en 1836, pendant le règne de Louis-Philippe. Il entreprend sa restauration à l'identique. Entre 1858 et 1859, le début des campagnes de restauration est mené par le service des Monuments historiques pour installer dans le château la sous-préfecture et la mairie, sous le règne de Napoléon III. De nos jours, il abrite la sous-préfecture, et depuis 1985 le musée d'art contemporain de Rochechouart où l'on peut admirer le fond Raoul Hausmann, artiste dadaïste, et des œuvres d'artistes internationaux des années 60 à nos jours, tels que Giuseppe Penone, Arte Povera, Christian Boltanski ou Tony Cragg. On peut aussi y voir des collections de silex, haches, pierres taillées et polies, ossements des époques préhistoriques, des reconstitutions d'hypocaustes provenant de Chassenon, des poteries découvertes en Auvergne et dans les Charentes. Trois expositions temporaires s'y déroulent chaque année. On peut y visiter aussi la salle des chasses qui abrite des fresques polychromes du début du xvie siècle, représentant une chasse au cerf, et la salle d'Hercule ornée de peintures murales en grisaille du milieu du xvie siècle. Dans la cour d'honneur, on peut admirer la galerie soutenue par des colonnes torses. (Wikipedia)

[bdscarf]

[deadthehype]

LeBron James & Stephen Curry embrace after USA beats France 98-87 to win the Gold medal. Photographed by Michael Reaves & Gregory Shamus.

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Ava Max - Torn 2019

"Torn" is a song by American singer Ava Max, released on August 19, 2019, as the third single from her debut studio album, Heaven & Hell (2020). The song was written by Max, Madison Love, James Lavigne, Thomas Eriksen, Sam Martin, and the producer Cirkut. It is a dance and pop song with lyrics describing the internal struggle between wanting to stay and leave in a relationship. An accompanying superhero-themed music video was directed by Korean-American director Joseph Kahn.

In Poland, "Torn" peaked at number three on the Polish Airplay Top 100 chart and was certified double platinum in the country. The song reached number three in the Netherlands, number four in Slovakia, and number nine in Slovenia. On the Scottish Singles Chart, "Torn" bowed at number 18, while it peaked at number 87 on the UK Singles Chart. "Torn" was certified gold in Austria, Brazil, France, Italy, and Switzerland.

"Torn" received a total of 58,4% yes votes.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (France, 1823-1887) Lesbia and the Sparrow, 1875 This painting illustrates the "Complaint made to the Sparrow of Lesbie" from the collection of poems 'Carmina' written by Catullus (Verona, 87 - 54 BC). Catullus, in 25 of his poems, mentions his devotion to a woman he refers to as "Lesbia", who is widely believed to have been the Roman aristocrat Clodia Metelli, who was married to Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer. The Latin poet Catullus from the Roman Republic was a fan of Sappho (a resident of Lesbos and therefore a Lesbian as anyone would be called if resident of the Grecian Island Lesbos), and so he named his beloved after her. Catullus was passionately in love with "Lesbia", a married woman who lived in Rome. In "Lament for Lesbia's Sparrow", he depicts a sparrow who enjoys all the attentions of his mistress, only to reveal his desire and his own jealousy in the face of the indifference of his loved one towards him.

[chic-a-gigot]

Beaux-arts des modes, no. 2, avril 1923 (New York, Paris, London, Milano, Wien, Bruxelles). Bibliothèque nationale de France

(87.) Summer frock of linon adorned with flat and hole embroidery. Sleeveless bodice with broad shoulder-collar. Front trimmed with small tucks. Pleated waterfall side wings. Atelier Bachroitz.

[aikya-kat-44]

Please give a crash course on everything F1 because I’m so curious and I want to understand your posts but the full extent of my knowledge is that the “F” stands for Formula.

I am so sorry that it took me so long to reply

(love the crash course pun, I'm always happy to infodump about f1)

F1 is a motor racing series. It's the highest class for international open wheel single seater racing, and it's governed by the FIA (you'll find out that I don't like the FIA very much. I think its corrupt).

In f1, there are 10 teams with two drivers each. Each team tries to build the fastest car within a set of regulations. Said cars are marvels of engineering.

Teams and drivers 2025:

Red Bull

Engines: Honda RBPT

Race drivers:

Max Verstappen: Career number: 33 Country: Netherlands

Liam Lawson: Career number: 30 Country: New Zealand

Mercedes

Engines: Mercedes

Race drivers:

George Russell: Career number: 63 Country: United Kingdom

Andrea Kimi Antonelli: Career number: 12 Country: Italy

Other drivers: Valtteri Bottas (Third)

Ferrari

Engines: Ferrari

Race drivers:

Charles Leclerc: Career number: 16 Country: Monaco

Lewis Hamilton (omg it's happening): Career number: 44 Country: United Kingdom

McLaren

Engines: Mercedes

Race drivers:

Lando Norris: Career number: 4 Country: United Kingdom

Oscar Piastri: Career number: 81 Country: Australia

Aston Martin

Engines: Mercedes

Race drivers:

Fernando Alonso: Career number: 14 Country: Spain

Lance Stroll: Career number: 18 Country: Canada

Alpine

Engines: Renault

Race drivers:

Pierre Gasly: Career number: 10 Country: France

Jack Doohan: Career number: 7 Country: Australia

Other drivers: Paul Aron (Reserve)Ryo Hirakawa (Reserve)2025 (Reserve)

Williams

Engines: Mercedes

Race drivers:

Alexander Albon: Career number: 23 Country: Thailand

Carlos Sainz Jnr: Career number: 55 Country: Spain

Racing Bulls

Engines: Honda RBPT

Race Drivers:

Yuki Tsunoda: Career number: 22 Country: Japan

Isack Hadjar: Career number: TBC Country: France

Sauber

Engines: Ferrari

Race drivers:

Nico Hulkenberg: Career number: 27 Country: Germany

Gabriel Bortoleto: Career number: 5 Country: Brazil

Haas

Engines: Ferrari

Race drivers:

Oliver Bearman: Career number: 87 Country: United Kingdom

Esteban Ocon (❤️): Career number: 31 Country: France

There are two championships, the wdc, won by individual drivers, and the wcc, won by the team. Championship points are accumulated by finishing high in grand prix races. Points are awarded to top 10 finishers:

The typical layout of a grand prix weekend is this:

Friday:

Fp1 (stands for final practice one. It's for experimenting with setups, tires and strategies)

Fp2

Saturday:

Fp3 (after this cars are in parc ferme. You cannot change the setup of the car in parc ferme)

qualifying:

Q1 (first stage of qualifying. The five drivers with the slowest lap times around the circuit are eliminated)

Q2 (the next 5 slowest drivera are eliminated)

Q3 (shootout for pole position, which is the number one spot on the starting grid)

sunday:

Grand prix time baby! (The main race. The starting order is that as determined by qualifying+ penalties. Points are awarded to the top 10 finishers and tire compound must be changed at least once)

Sprint weekend:

Friday:

fp1

sprint qualifying (qualifying for the sprint race)

Saturday:

sprint race (shortened race. Points awarded to top 8 finishers. No obligation to change tires)

Regular qualifying

Sunday:

grand prix

Tires:

Tires in f1 are provided by pirelli. There are 5 dry compounds:

the C1 is the hardest compound, best for long runs as it's long lasting but comparatively slow. The C5 is the softest, best for qualifying as it's fast but degrades quickly

There are 3 of these compounds used per weekend. The quickest are the sofas, the slowest are the hards and the balanced options are the mediums.

Wet weather tires:

Wet tires have a blue stripe and are rarely used as they are for extreme wet weather that normally warrants a safety car

Intermediate tyres are commonly used for wet races. They are theoretically between slick tyres (dry weather tyres) and full wets

flags in f1:

(ATP I'm too tired to give my own explanations for the flags, so have this cool infographic)

Virtual safety car: all cars must reduce their speed by 30%

Safety car: all cars must follow the safety car. There will be no overtaking

Stats:

link to a Wikipedia list of driver records

Link to a Wikipedia list of constructor records

Random Drama and funny stuff that happened in f1 that I will be referring to:

The Monaco curse was basically Charles Leclerc being utterly unsuccessful and unlucky at his home race. Broken in 2024. (Yk what I'm going to do with this)

Ferrari strategy is a joke based on Ferrari screwing up their strategy all the time in 2022

The underwear and earrings thing aka the FIA being stupid incidents are the FIA deciding they are a strict secondary school and creating regulations on underwear and jewellery

Brocedes aka the silver war is a homoerotic teenage friendship going wrong in a dramatic intra team rivalry. Occurred in 2016.

The briefcase incident where Gerahd Berger threw Ayrton Senna's briefcase out of a helicopter because he was bragging about it being practically indestructible

Berger putting 99 frogs in Senna's hotel room because he knew Senna would spend all night looking for the 100th. His response? Did you find the snake.

Seb Vettel and his finger

Seb Vettel and his bees

Vettel giving Hamilton's hotel room number to some grid girls

Roscoe and Leo interactions!! (Roscoe is Hamilton's dog and Leo is Leclerc's- some real Argos potential here)

Sergio Perez stealing Roscoe as an April fools joke

Penelope (not that Penelope- I mean Max Verstappen's niece) turning up on Verstappen's streams

Seb Vettel being a nerd and listing all the championship winners since the beginning of F1.

Papaya rules is basically McLaren giving their drivers as fair treatment as possible and it costing them in the wdc (epic fans- don't you see the vision?)

Esteban Ocon and Lewis Hamilton racing remote control cars

This is Hamilton's first time year at Ferrari in pursuit of the 8th wdc

This one is serious- Abu Dhabi 2021 is an incident where Lewis Hamilton was cheated out of a record breaking 8th world championship because the race director decided to invent some new rules

Good articles for learning more about F1:

what is f1

begginers guide to f1

f1 rules and regulations

f1 for beginners (video)

thats it ig bai bai

-Aikya

@eve-will-perceive is there anything important that I missed? This was completely off the top of my head (can u pls add more random drama I'm too tired to think of an more)

[petermorwood]

Flying Officer B.P. “Squirrel” Nutkin of 266 Squadron RAF, seen here in a Hawker Hurricane Mk I flown by 266 during the Fall of France.

As the British Expeditionary Force were driven back by Guderian’s Blitzkrieg, 266 was badly mauled while keeping Luftwaffe bombers away from the Dunkirk beaches, losing enough Hurricanes that it re-equipped with the Supermarine Spifire Mk Ia just in time for the Battle of Britain.

Nutkin, resisting what was already becoming known as "Spitfire Snobbery", was one of the last 266 Squadron pilots to convert from his Hurricane. This snapshot, therefore, must have been taken at some time in mid-June 1940, between the end of Operation Dynamo on 4th June and the official start of the Battle of Britain on 10th July.

*****

It was during the BEF’s final withdrawal from Dunkirk that Flying Officer Nutkin, already with two kills to his credit, made ace in an afternoon and won his first DFC.

He was section leader of Red Section - comprising himself, Pilot Officer Tom E. Brock and Pilot Officer J.R.M.E. Fisher - providing top cover for the evacuation, when on 2nd June 1940 they found themselves up-sun from a raid directed against several of the “Little Ships” (civilian vessels with volunteer crews).

Red Section executed a perfect “bounce” that caught the enemy completely off guard, six Luftwaffe aircraft were shot down, and Nutkin personally accounted for two Junkers Ju.87-B Stuka dive-bombers as well as one Messerschmitt Bf.109-E4 from their escort.

(Representative images, not actual footage)

“Squirrel” Nutkin finished his RAF service in 1946 with the rank of Wing Commander. It’s widely believed he was promoted no higher after saying “Nuts!” to Air Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory, even though this turned out not to have been an insult, merely a misheard comment about which bar snacks were running short in the Officers' Mess.

Regardless of explanation, Leigh-Mallory - always notoriously pompous about his own image and reputation - made a disparaging entry in Nutkin’s file and refused to amend it. His later death in an accident meant the unwarranted black mark was never deleted.

This didn't concern post-war fledgling new airline BEA (British European Airways), and Nutkin joined them directly he left the Air Force…

…going on to become one of their senior captains before transferring to Transatlantic service with BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation).

During a layover in New York he met and later married Cicely van Gopher of the New Hampshire van Gophers, and on retirement from flying made a fortune in forestry.

“Some people can’t see the wood for the trees, but for some reason I'm quite good at both.”

[chutty2thiq]

"Cinq nuit chez Freddy's, est-ce où tu veux d'être?"

- William Shakespeare

[dronescapesvideos]

Heinkel He 111H-2 transported through the town of Roye, France. November 1939. It was intercepted by two Hurricanes of 87 Sqn RAF and shot down by Flt Lt Robert Voase Jeff. It was the first recorded victory for the RAF Advanced Air Striking Force. For his actions, Jeff was awarded the Croix de Guerre and became "the first British officer to receive a French award in the present war." Badly damaged, the Heinkel belly landed at the place called "La Longue Croix", at Staple near Hazebrouck. A wing of the plane struck an electric pylon, while the landing gear broke against a hedge near a small stream. Two French civilians, Jean Ellebout and Eugen Vantours, were the first to reach the bomber. Two of the crew had been seriously wounded. The two others were trying to burn documents and were arrested. Both wounded were brought to Cassel, one later dying of his wounds. The three survivors (including the other wounded) were captured by the French.

➤HD IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/He-111

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

Louise de Kéralio-Robert arguing women can’t play a role in politics while being a woman who plays a role in politics compilation

Women! Always women in everything that threatens France! […] Wherever we have seen women in public matters in France, everywhere we have seen them in drunkenness! (dans l’ivresse) Mercure national, 22 August 1790, cited in ”Le corps petit, mais l’âme grande”: Voicing a Woman’s Ambition in Louise de Kéralio (2019) by Vicki Mistacco, page 87.

[I defend] the continuation of the Salic Law among a people too masculine to expose twenty-four million men to ever entrusting this executive power, which emanates from them alone, into the hands of a woman. Journal d’État et du citoyen, 1 October 1789, cited in ”Le corps petit, mais l’âme grande”: Voicing a Woman’s Ambition in Louise de Kéralio (2019) by Vicki Mistacco, page 83.

Mademoiselle de Keralio is very satisfied by what [Monsieur Brissot de Warville] said today about the influence of women. It is very much part of Melle de Keralio’s principles that women should not make a great spectacle of themselves. […] A love of publicity is bad for modesty, from the loss of that comes a distaste for domestic work, and from idleness, principles are forgotten and from lack of morals arise all of public disorders. […] She would like it if one was forced to seek women inside their homes, their presence should be hard to obtain, and rare, offered as a favour. It is one of the regenerations of France and especially of Paris […], men will be busy from now on, and consequently less attentive to the frequent appearance of useless or frivolous objects. Women […] will resort to the peaceful and useful occupations that nature assigns to them; education will change, and in the next generation, we will have fewer of these little amphibious beings whose appearance so cruelly bothered Mademoiselle de Kéralio that she was often called a prude and a bigot (although she was neither one nor the other) […] when she […] sought in vain, the gentleness, the modesty, the pudeur, which she gothicly imagined which must be the share of a weak and timid sex. She is truly delighted that M. Brissot de Warvulle [sic] taught her a little lesson, and it will certainly not be her who makes it a crime. Letter dated October 10 1789 from de Kéralio to Brissot, cited in ”Le corps petit, mais l’âme grande”: Voicing a Woman’s Ambition in Louise de Kéralio (2019), page page 87. Mistacco speculates that the ”little lesson” Brissot gave Kéralio was him reprimanding her for having portrayed the women in the march to Versailles as ”heroines” in her journal a few days earlier.

I do not believe that women can ever have any active part in government, and I believe that the greatest good that the constitution can do to public morals is to keep them out of it forever. Women reign in despotic states, it is enough to say that they must be null in the administration of a free country. The more the austerity of republican mores will make them attentive inside their homes, the more it will render them incapable of knowing enough public men to direct a choice which must be the fruit of constant observation and consummate experience. I know in them the sagacity necessary to judge the best of things, but not the extent of genius which makes known the means of arriving there or the force of temperament which supports the necessary studies. I repeat it again, the more they will be what nature has made them, the less they will want to undertake something beyond their physical and moral strength. Content to teach their children the decrees of the assembly, they will aspire neither to make nor dictate them. Mercure national ou Journal d’État et du Citoyen, April 18 1790, in response to the pamphlet Le franc en vedette, ou, Le porte-voix de la vérité, sur le tocsin (1790) by Armand Joseph Guffroy, which briefly argued women should take part in administrative business. Cited in Louise de Kéralio-Robert, pionnière du républicanisme sexiste (2006) by Annie Geffroy. According to Louise Kéralio Robert, Feminism, Virtue and the Problem of Fanaticism (2021) by Karen Green (tysm! for sharing it with me @nigrit) this article is actually unsigned, and it would therefore be unfair to attribute its authorship to de Kéralio.

Gentlemen of the Social Circle, take care of morals; instead of attracting this crowd of idle and curious women in your footsteps, teach them to shut themselves up in their homes, to make themselves useful and pleasant to their husbands, to their fathers, to their brothers, to provide for and to raise their children there, to take care of their fortune there. Mercure national ou Journal d’État et du Citoyen, April 18 1790, cited in Louise de Kéralio-Robert, pionnière du républicanisme sexiste (2006) by Annie Geffroy.

That despotism, fanaticism, pride, avarice lavishing gold and promises, arm the hands of a multitude of men without confession, without family, without homeland, this we have often had examples of since the [beginning of] the revolution. But that a weak and timid sex, stripping away at the same time the two feelings which are most essential to its being: fear and pity, arms its feeble hands against its fellow citizens, its friends, its brothers, its defenders; that one see women assembled in a public square, calling men to fight, provoking some, inciting others, ordering murder and setting an example! [---] Once again, it is the corruption of morals which today produces the anti-civility of women, formerly noble. Well! how could they not fear to cross, at one point, the limits of their sex, they who have stripped all sense of modesty? How would they blush to add hypocrisy to so many even more shameful vices? Chaste women are timid, lost women are bold, daring, cruel. Adresse aux femmes de Monteauban par Mme Robert, ci-devant Melle de Kéralio (1790)

I thought that we could gain a considerable advantage from the addition of a few women to the inspectors appointed by the section. Their domestic duties, sacred duties, important to public order, prohibit them from all administrative functions, and I do not claim to take them out of their sphere because the best things out of place lose all their value. But the spirit of detail to which they are accustomed in their domestic care makes them suitable for the proposed inspection. What would escape the vast observations of a man, will strike them more quickly either in the visits, or in the examination of the details of the broth, and examining the meats; they will see the bakeries, the cellars, the farmyard, the gardening, the fruits, finally, they will go into those details to which they are accustomed at home, and which constitute the skill of a good housewife. Extrait des délibérations de la société fraternelle des deux sexes: séante aux jacobins du dimanche 4 décembre de l'an III par Louise Robert (1791) page 10.