The World Turned Upside Down: Female Soldiers in the French Armies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Hopkin, David

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“…With the revolutionary wars new prospects for female soldiers opened up on both sides of the Atlantic. 67 The American War of Independence witnessed a range of active female participants in war, from the wives of soldiers serving the medical units or the artillery to cross-dressing women passing themselves off as men and even women openly serving as irregular soldiers. 68 One particular famous case is that of Deborah Sampson (1760-1827), which shows some interesting parallels with Hannah Snell.…”

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Between Dissimulation and Sensation: Female Soldiers in Eighteenth‐Century Warfare

Füssel¹

2018

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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In this article women dressed as men serving in early modern armies are interpreted as the ‘normal exceptional’ that allows us to trace the construction of gender roles and female agency as well as the cultural logic behind the standing armies of the period. Looking at examples from Germany, Austria, France and Great Britain, the ‘career’ of the female soldier in eighteenth‐century warfare is situated in the field of tension between dissimulation and sensation. The disclosure of a hidden gender identity not only exposed such women to military justice but also opened up new ‘tactical’ possibilities for self‐fashioning and survival.

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Section: Becoming Popular: From Cross-dressing To Self-fashioningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Between Dissimulation and Sensation: Female Soldiers in Eighteenth‐Century Warfare

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2018

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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“…72 And yet, as David Hopkin suggests, the female soldier had long been popular on the Parisian stage, and for that reason these plays resonated with the public. 73 Villeneuve's three-act Liberté-Barreau, ou Les héroines républicaines, for example, evidently interested theatregoers enough to be revived repeatedly throughout 1795, and the heroine of Saint-Milhier's readiness to sacrifice herself and her children rather than yield to counter-revolutionary brigands proved even more popular. 74 The subject of three plays and six paintings in the concours of the year II, she became, alongside Bara, the inspiration for the most widely reproduced images to emerge from the Recueil.…”

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‘Valour Knows Neither Age Nor Sex’: The Recueil des Actions Héroïques and the Representation of Courage in Revolutionary France

Clarke

2013

War in History

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The outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars prompted the production of wartime propaganda on an unprecedented scale. In France state-sponsored publications such as the mass-produced Recueil des Actions Héroïques et Civiques des Républicains Français reached an exceptionally wide audience throughout the Terror and inspired a variety of patriotic prints, plays, and paintings in the years that followed publication. This article argues that works such as this radically redefined the representation of courage in combat and left a lasting legacy on the representation of warfare well into the nineteenth century.

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“…20 While recent scholarship suggests an increase in the number of female soldiers in the early years of the French Revolution, David Hopkin has cautioned that 'whatever the varied motivations of female soldiers were, this period was a late flowering for the tradition'. 21 The striking number of women who performed as soldiers during the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars may be attributed to many reasons. General mobilization for these wars in most countries made it relatively easy for women to volunteer for military service disguised as men, for the large demand for soldiers meant that medical examinations were either superficial or bypassed.…”

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`Heroic Virgins' and `Bellicose Amazons': Armed Women, the Gender Order and the German Public during and after the Anti-Napoleonic Wars

Hagemann

2007

European History Quarterly

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In Prussian-German history, the period of the Anti-Napoleonic Wars between 1806 and 1815 is central for the formation of a national political culture. These wars accelerated and intensified the nationalization of the gender order and the ‘gendering’ of the nation, while permanently influencing the fundamental structures of the relationship between women, the state and the nation. The article analyses one form of female patriotic activities during this period: the participation of armed women in the wars, as well as the ways in which they were perceived and commemorated. By studying their collective perception and remembrance with a focus on Prussia in a broader European context, the article explores the relationship between women, war and the nation.

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The World Turned Upside Down: Female Soldiers in the French Armies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Between Dissimulation and Sensation: Female Soldiers in Eighteenth‐Century Warfare

Between Dissimulation and Sensation: Female Soldiers in Eighteenth‐Century Warfare

‘Valour Knows Neither Age Nor Sex’: The Recueil des Actions Héroïques and the Representation of Courage in Revolutionary France

`Heroic Virgins' and `Bellicose Amazons': Armed Women, the Gender Order and the German Public during and after the Anti-Napoleonic Wars

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