With many revolts like revolts of the poor, unemployed workers and starving Peasants during 1848 in Europe, educated middle class of France also started a revolution for the abdication of the monarch and a republic based on universal male suffrage had been proclaimed. In other parts of Europe, men and women of the liberal middle classes combined their demands for constitutionalism with national unification. They took advantage o{ the growing popular unrest to push their demands for the creation of a nation-state on parliamentary principles - a constitution, freedom of press and freedom of association. The issue of extending political rights to women was most controversial subject matter within the liberal movement in which large number of women had participated actively.
