Résumé
During the French Revolution, education was conceived as an instrument to redefine gender roles. By taking the example of the training of girls to learn sewing, this article questions the political role of schools in the production of a gendered labor division. Women's responsibility for domestic care, justified by "Nature", was also considered as an enabling condition for men's exercise of active citizenship. However, a minority of revolutionaries, contested the importance of teaching sewing in order to assert women's right to education and to be active in public life. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]