 Placing Grouchy in a republican context highlights the importance of her work for the French Revolution and vice versa. Few political philosophers write in a vacuum; most are influenced by or wish to influence the events unfolding around them. But when the events are as remarkable as a revolution, then it makes no sense to ignore their impact on the work we are looking at. In the case of Grouchy, it is even clearer that she wished to participate, through her writings, in the making of the new Republic; in the summer of 1791, together with Condorcet and a few friends, she established a political journal, Le Républicain, the purpose of which was to enlighten the public as to what republicanism was.