The short satirical work "Republicans and Aristocrats or Walkers in their Field of Mars" takes place during the first celebration of the fall of the Bastille.
At this first splendid, mass ceremony, the Federation Festival, which took place in the Field of Mars, was attended by the king, the queen, the members of the National Assembly, the ministers, Lafayette, and the troops, who took a political oath to be "always faithful to the nation, to the law, and to the king," and a very large crowd of people.
de Gouges humorously describes the reactions of different archetypes of individuals to the political events that have brought about a complete upheaval in society and consequently in their lives. Her tenderly comic way of describing them ridicules the social reality around her.
