1801-12 With the support of Constance de Salm, Raoul published in 1801. Influenced by the thinking of
Claude Adrien Helvétius, and citing
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Raoul denounces the weight of opinion and prejudice. She pleads to obtain the full rights of a citizen and to work for more social justice. She fights with force the prejudices which oppress her sex. According to Briquet (1804), this work deserved to be better known; it was well written, the logic was pressing, and it contained healthy and new views. (The Décade philosophique, littéraire et politique) of her compatriot
Pierre-Louis Ginguené praised the justness of Raoul's complaints6. This text was republished in 1989 at the initiative of
Geneviève Fraisse (Côté-femmes éditions) and then in 2011, at "Le Passager clandestin", with a preface by Geneviève Fraisse and an article by
Marie Desplechin. This text recalls the position of
François Poullain de la Barre in his feminist writings, notably , written 150 years earlier. Raoul establishes the link between slavery of women and slavery of
Blacks. Then followed in 1813 the , a collection of various texts that she had kept for years. This work was controversial: she accused
Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval, member of the
Académie Française and director of the
Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, of
plagiarism. She delivered a comparative study that was much debated and her fight was panned by journalists who nicknamed her the "
Breton Amazon". The same year, she published three other brochures in which she analyzed important political events. One finds in particular (Ideas of a Frenchwoman on the constitution made or to be made in) which she fears the return to an absolute monarchic system allowing that a class of citizens arrogates to itself the right to oppress all the others.
1814-15 From 1814 onwards, Raoul published a periodical which she called . The magazine was published until April 1815; 25 issues were published. Each number includes general information, political bills, art criticisms and a column on literature. From number 10 on, she signed each issue. Raoul is probably the only contributor. She relays the ideas of
Benjamin Constant. Far from siding with economic liberalism, it is above all the social counterpart that finds favor in her eyes. She sees it as the surest and fairest way to make the greatest number of people benefit from the common good. All forms of oppression are now her battle ground, whether it is slavery, women, or poverty. She comments on current events, without forgetting to detail her troubles with the censors. The publication of
Le Véridique ends with the appointment of Benjamin Constant to the Conseil d'État by
Napoleon. Raoul is very enthusiastic about the advent of the idea of democracy that she has defended for years. She announces to retire from the public scene. She does not seem to write anymore afterwards despite the return to the monarchy in November 1815 and the exile of Benjamin Constant. ==Feminist commitment==