Olympe de gouges biography of donald
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Olympe De Gouges
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Political activist and writer Olympe de Gouges was from France. Her Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen, together with other publications on women's rights and abolitionism, is what made her most famous.
De Gouges, a famous writer who was born in southwest France, started her career in Paris in the 1780s. One of the first people in France to openly oppose slavery, she was an ardent supporter of human rights. She covered a wide range of topics in her plays and booklets, such as social security, children's rights, unemployment, and divorce and marriage. While De Gouges first applauded the start of the French Revolution, she quickly lost hope when women were denied equal rights. Against the practice of male dominance and in favor of equal rights for women, de Gouges issued her Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen in 1791 as a reaction to the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
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On 3 November 1793 Olympe de Gouges was led to the scaffold in Paris in the Place de la Révolution (now Place de la Concorde) and guillotined. She had kept her composure with dignity and courage: ‘Enfants de la Patrie’, she declared, ‘you will avenge my death’. She was 45. She had been preceded earlier in that year, the Year of Terror, by Marie-Antoinette and many others. Her crime? Though a revolutionary herself – albeit of the moderate Girondin faction – she opposed capital punishment and had taken a stand against the execution of Louis XVI. She was in favour of a constitutional monarchy and had denounced the Jacobin-led massacre of detained royalists (September 1792). She ended up being herself a victim of the Jacobin terror, like many Girondins. She was a revolutionary too moderate for the times.
The trouble with Olympe is that she was a troublemaker.
Born on 7 May 1748 in Montauban in southern France, she was the daughter of Pierre Gouze, a butcher. Her maternal grandfather h
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A new biography of Olympe de Gouges calls for her to be buried in the Pantheon
The French feminist writer, author of the "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the kvinnlig Citizen" (1791), deserves to be buried alongside other national heroes and heroines, as Michel Faucheux explains in his new book.
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She supported the abolition of slavery, fought for equality between dock and women, campaigned for the right of free union and divorce, and defended democracy threatened bygd the Reign of Terror. Guillotined at the age of 45 for federalism and anti-Robespierrism, Olympe dem Gouges (1748-1793) believed that if women had the right to go to the gallows, they should also have the right to "go to the podium." Literature (novels, plays) and newspapers were her podium. She carved out a space for herself in samhälle at a time when women, even those of influence, remained in the shadows. And the fact is, aside from Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814), few