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In the double dynamic of the commemoration of the Bicentennial of the French Revolution and the production of historical as well as historiographical studies dealing with women during the Revolutionary period, the names of Condorcet, Romme and Guyomar have occupied center stage as defenders of equal political rights between men and women. The issue of the equality of rights also engaged the attention other participants in the Revolution on matters of civil equality. A member of the Committee of legislation of the National Convention, Pons de Verdun played an active part in the legislative debates in 1793 on the issue of the equality between spouses, then again in 1794 on the question of the death penalty as applied to pregnant women. During these two moments, each with its specific contexts, he defended a conception of legal equality marked by revolutionary individualism and humanism to curtail the power of the husband, and to combat the differences in legal treatment between men and women. It is important to identify the significance and the limits of his discourses so critical to the history of gender and the family.