Place de la Révolution, Paris, French First Republic
Cause of death
Execution by guillotine
Occupations
Activist
abolitionist
women's rights advocate
playwright
Spouse
Louis Aubry
(m. 1765; died 1766)
Children
1
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Olympe de Gouges (French:[ɔlɛ̃pdəɡuʒ]ⓘ; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism.
Born in southwestern France, de Gouges began her prolific career as a playwright in Paris in the 1780s. A passionate advocate of human rights, she was one of France's earliest public opponents of slavery. Her plays and pamphlets spanned a wide variety of issues including divorce and marriage, children's rights, unemployment and social security. In addition to her being a playwright and political activist, she was also a small time actress prior to the Revolution.[1] De Gouges welcomed the outbreak of the French Revolution but soon became disenchanted when equal rights were not extended to women. In 1791, in response to the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, de Gouges published her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, in which she challenged the practice of male authority and advocated for equal rights for women.
De Gouges was associated with the moderate Girondins and opposed the execution of Louis XVI. Her increasingly vehement writings, which attacked Maximilien Robespierre's radical Montagnards and the Revolutionary government during the Reign of Terror, led to her eventual arrest and execution by guillotine in 1793.
OlympedeGouges (French: [ɔlɛ̃p də ɡuʒ] ; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist. She is best...
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illegitimate children. DeGouges also expressed non-gender political views; even before the start of the terror, OlympedeGouges addressed Robespierre...
although only to a limited degree. Activists included Girondists like OlympedeGouges, author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female...
fellow-Girondist hostess Madame Roland, Madame de Condorcet's salon always included other women, notably OlympedeGouges. Condorcet was also a writer and a translator...
leaders like Robespierre and Danton. Unlike the feminist revolutionaries OlympedeGouges and Etta Palm, Madame Roland was not an advocate for political rights...
actress, producer and director. She published her first book, Moi, OlympedeGouges, a biography, in 2009. Adapted to the theater, her work proved to be...
Defarge on revolutionaries Théroigne de Mericourt, who played a key role in street demonstrations, and OlympedeGouges, known as Fury and founder of apocryphal...
passive citizens who played a significant role in the Revolution. OlympedeGouges penned her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen...
'feminism' was first transmitted to China in 1791 which was proposed by OlympedeGouges and promoted the 'women's liberation'. The feminist movement in China...
woman and national education." At the end of 1791, French feminist OlympedeGouges had published her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female...
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among them Jacques Pierre Brissot and Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud. OlympedeGouges ( 3 November 1793) Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (6 November 1793);...
'Man': OlympedeGouges' Declarations," History Workshop No. 28 (Autumn 1989), pp. 1–21. "A Woman Who Has Only Paradoxes to Offer: OlympedeGouges Claims...
dignity of the Republic created from French Revolution. The writings of Baron de Montesquieu, another Enlightenment thinker of the time, greatly influenced...
appends her own prison sonnets. November 2 – The French dramatist OlympedeGouges is sentenced to death by a revolutionary tribunal. Both she and her...
Enlightenment women philosophers and historians included Mary Wollstonecraft, OlympedeGouges, Catherine Macaulay, Mary Astell, Judith Sargent Murray (under the...
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Army is disbanded. 1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist OlympedeGouges is guillotined. 1812 – Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle...
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