There were multiple phases in Revolution.
The first one abolished religious basement of social ties. With civil marriage came the possibility to divorce, both for men and women, and hot debate about the women rights.
The Montagnard around Robespierre saw themselves as "virtuous", cutting the heads of libertine Danton and feminist Olympes de Gouges altogether.
The Thermidorians, survivors of the terror, had a thirst for living with probably the most easygoing view on private life, and certainly the most transparent dresses for women.
The early consulate was on the same trend, but Empire and civil code was the end of the game, with husband authority and fidelity of the woman at the center of the legal system - the military life, as stated in the book, going another way.