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Olympe de Gouges: Feminist Pioneer

Olympe de Gouges, born Marie Gouze in 1748, was a French social reformer and writer known for her feminist views and advocacy for women's rights. After moving to Paris, she became involved in various social issues and published the influential pamphlet 'Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the [Female] Citizen' in 1791. De Gouges was arrested during the French Revolution and executed in 1793 for her beliefs.

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Olympe de Gouges: Feminist Pioneer

Olympe de Gouges, born Marie Gouze in 1748, was a French social reformer and writer known for her feminist views and advocacy for women's rights. After moving to Paris, she became involved in various social issues and published the influential pamphlet 'Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the [Female] Citizen' in 1791. De Gouges was arrested during the French Revolution and executed in 1793 for her beliefs.

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Olympe de Gouges

Olympe de Gouges, also called Marie-Olympe de Gouges, original name Marie Gouze, married
name Marie Aubry, (born May 7, 1748, Montauban, [Link] social reformer and writer
who challenged conventional views on a number of matters, especially the role of women as
citizens. Many consider her among the world’s first feminists.
Marie was married at age 16 and the mother of a son, but the marriage was short-lived. When
her husband died, Marie changed her name to Olympe de Gouges, moved to Paris, and vowed
never to marry again.
She became active in political causes and took up social issues that ranged from road
improvement to divorce, maternity hospitals, abolitionism, and the rights of orphaned children
and of unmarried mothers, and she wrote prolifically in defense of her ideas. Among her plays
was L’Esclavage des noirs (“Slavery of Blacks”), which was staged at the Théâtre-Français. In
1791, as the French Revolution continued, she published the pamphlet Déclaration des droits de
la femme et de la citoyenne (“Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the [Female] Citizen”).
In the pamphlet she asserted not only that women have the same rights as men but also that
children born outside of marriage should be treated as fairly as “legitimate” children in matters of
inheritance in the summer of 1793, she was arrested and was subjected to a mock trial, and was
gullitioned in the conventional period aka robespierre’s period on November 3 1793.

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