Human Rights and Citizenship during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era

January 27, 2024January 27, 2024 Discipline: History

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to learn from where the modern conceptions of human rights and citizenship originated.

Post: On the basis of this week’s readings—specifically Chapter 19 and 20 of the textbook, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, and the Declaration of the Rights of Women and Female Citizen—write a 500-word post responding to the following questions:

  • What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen? Who wrote it? Why? What cultural movement did inspire it?
  • What are the main points of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen? What is the Declaration of the Rights of Women and Female Citizen? Who wrote it? Why? What cultural movement did inspire it?
  • What are the main points of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen?
  • Explain the concept of “new paternalism” in the Civil Code of 1804 (i.e. Napoleonic Code).
  • In what ways does this week’s material inform modern ideas of human rights and citizenship?



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