(Revue Interdisciplinaire de Philosophie Morale et Politique), 1991; one vol. in-8°, 1-193 p. - In the last of the fifteen essays in the Conditions feminines à l'époque de la révolution française, Elisabeth Sledziewski deplores the underdeveloped historiography of women during the revolutionary period. Women's history remains an oral history, retold in conference papers and written down only in unpublished manuscripts, she laments. The editors of this volume of Réseaux have consciously addressed that problem by publishing the acts of the colloquium held in Mons in November 1989.

The inspiration for many of these essays is clearly the path-breaking Citoyens Tricoteuses by Dominique Godineau. According to Hedwige Peemans-Poullet, one of the contributors to this volume, Godineau captured "la globalité de la vie des parisiennes des milieux populaires" (p. 164). In contrast to most of the older histories of revolutionary women, Godineau told the story of "les femmes du peuple" based on painstaking research in the archives of the police and other previously unstudied sources.

Many of the Belgian contributors to the volume have discovered new documents that they have mined to give us glimpses of revolutionary women in the Austrian Netherlands. Cécile Douxchamps-Lefèvre discusses the reactions of two provincial aristocratic women to the events of the French Revolution, based on their correspondence. Philippe Annaert argues that contrary to our customary assumption about women's religious traditions during the eighteenth century, the educational mission of the ursulines contributed to the progrès-