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Women's March to Versailles
French women marched to protest the rising bread prices and achieved great success in forcing the royals back to Paris. The primary source is of a government official recounting the activities of the day and is translated by Yale Education briefly (link attached with picture.)
(https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/treasures-of-the-area-studies-collections-reconsidering-primary-sources-and-collections/item/6883#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-33%2C-159%2C658%2C1016)
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Queen Victoria Receiving the Sacrament at her Coronation
Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837 and became the longest-ruling monarch of the United Kingdom, she was an iconic political leader of her era.
LINK: https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/406993/queen-victoria-receiving-the-sacrament-at-her-coronation-28-june-1838
Painting on oil by Charles Robert Leslie. -
Women Fighting in Place Blanche
The Paris Commune occurred after the French were defeated in the Franco-German Way and Napoleon’s empire fell. Women were heavily involved in this Commune. Attached is the primary source (image of fighting involving women.)
LINK: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000693/18710617/017/0008 -
Flora Sandes Wins the Serbian Cross
Flora Sandes was a nurse who was enrolled in the Serbian Army during WW1. She was the first woman soldier to reach the rank of Major and the only woman to do so in WW1.