Wilfrid Laurier University Scholars Commons @ Laurier Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive) 2018 BAS BLEUS, DIVORCEUSES, DECEITFUL PROSTITUTES OR “LIVE ALLEGORIES” OF CHANGE? PARISIAN WORKING-CLASS WOMEN AND THE REVOLUTION OF 1848 Natasha A. Gardonyi
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd Part of the Cultural History Commons, European History Commons, Social History Commons, and the Women's History Commons Recommended Citation Gardonyi, Natasha A., "BAS BLEUS, DIVORCEUSES, DECEITFUL PROSTITUTES OR “LIVE ALLEGORIES” OF CHANGE? PARISIAN WORKING-CLASS WOMEN AND THE REVOLUTION OF 1848" (2018). Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive). 2087. https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2087 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Commons @ Laurier. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive) by an authorized administrator of Scholars Commons @ Laurier. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. BAS BLEUS, DIVORCEUSES, DECEITFUL PROSTITUTES OR “LIVE ALLEGORIES” OF CHANGE? PARISIAN WORKING-CLASS WOMEN AND THE REVOLUTION OF 1848 By Natasha Gardonyi Bachelor of Arts, Western University, 2016 Master of Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2018 THESIS Submitted to the Faculty of Arts In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master of History Wilfrid Laurier University 2018 ©Natasha Gardonyi ABSTRACT This thesis acts as both a history of the roles that Parisian working-class women played as writers, society members and insurgents during the revolutionary year of 1848, and an analysis of why they were vilified in the press as bas-bleus, divorceuses, deceitful prostitutes and more extensively as the individuals responsible for the failure of the revolution.