Théroigne de Méricourt was another important female speaker during the French revolution. She was known to wear a man’s riding habit and a dashing red jacket. ^[9] She made a number of public speeches urging her fellow women to arm themselves and join the men on the battlements.

"Fellow women citizens, why should we not enter into rivalry with the men?  Do they alone lay claim to have rights to glory; no, no . . . And we too would wish to earn a civic crown and court the honour of dying for a liberty which is dearer perhaps to us than it is to them, since the effects of despotism weigh still more heavily upon our heads than upon theirs . . . . Let us open a list of French Amazons; and let all who truly love their Fatherland write their names there."^[9]

Théroigne de Méricourt also organized a women's club and fought that women should be allowed to vote and have equal power to men. But, like Gouge, Méricourt would not stay quiet, and as a result, she was imprisoned twice. She was also stripped naked and stoned by a mob of women who did not agree with her ideas. Théroigne never recovered from this blow, suffering of headaches and persistent “melancholy” followed her for the rest of her days. ^[5]