 Divorce was legalized and made more accessible for a brief period during the French Revolution before it was codified under Napoleon in a way that made much more difficult to obtain, especially for women. Grouchy in her Letters argues in favor not only of divorce, but of short-term, renewable marriage contracts and clear rights for children born outside marriage and for their mothers. In these she is in agreement with another woman philosopher of the Revolution, Olympe de Gouges. Grouchy derived these arguments at least in part from Montesquieu’s analysis of the Roman law in the Spirit of the Law.