Liberty, equality, fraternity?

As July 14 approaches , the French motto is increasingly on our minds: Liberty, equality, fraternity.

Our national holiday, which celebrates the storming of the Bastille by the revolutionaries and the beginnings of the Republic, is well known to all, and some historical names are unmissable: Maximilien de Robespierre, Georges Jacques Danton, Jean-Paul Marat, the Marquis de Lafayette and many others. But... "Where are the women?"

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We don't talk enough about the women of the revolution, but some of them played a major role!

- On July 13, 1793, Charlotte Corday went to see Marat, a journalist who was demanding and calling for murder in his publications. She murdered him in his bathtub and was executed in turn a few days later.

- After the proclamation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Olympe de Gouges , a visionary, noticed that no mention of women was made. She then wrote and published the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Citizen in 1791.

- Théroigne de Méricourt , born in Liège, went to France to take part in the revolutionary events. The only woman in the tribunes of the Assembly , she created the Club des Amis de la loi and notably took part in the invasion of the Tuileries Palace by the people in 1792.

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It is in homage to these women and to all those forgotten (and neglected!) by history that we have developed this t-shirt , bearing the image of great women in the history of France ♥

Simone, Jeanne and Joséphine , to be worn loud and clear for July 14 (and the rest of the year!)

-> See the t-shirt