<P> As she was led to the scaffold, Madame Roland shouted "O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!" Witnesses of her life and death, editors, and readers helped to finish her writings and several editions were published posthumously . While she did not focus on gender politics in her writings, by taking an active role in the tumultuous time of the Revolution, Roland took a stand for women of the time and proved they could take an intelligent active role in politics . </P> <P> Though women did not gain the right to vote as a result of the Revolution, they still greatly expanded their political participation and involvement in governing . They set precedents for generations of feminists to come . </P> <P> A major aspect of the French Revolution was the dechristianisation movement, a movement that many common people did not agree with . Especially for women living in rural areas of France, the demise of the Catholic Church meant a loss of normalcy . For instance, the ringing of Church bells resonating through the town called people to confession and was a symbol of unity for the community . With the onset of the dechristianisation campaign the Republic silenced these bells and sought simultaneously to silence the religious fervor of the majority Catholic population . </P> <P> When these revolutionary changes to the Church were implemented, it spawned a counter-revolutionary movement, particularly amongst women . Although some of these women embraced the political and social amendments of the Revolution, they opposed the dissolution of the Catholic Church and the formation of revolutionary cults like the Cult of the Supreme Being advocated by Robespierre . As Olwen Hufton argues, these women began to see themselves as the "defenders of faith". They took it upon themselves to protect the Church from what they saw as a heretical change to their faith, enforced by revolutionaries . </P>

Analyse the role of thinkers and philosophers in the french revolution