Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)
Born in 1745, the daughter of a butcher and a washerwoman, she married a rich old man. After being widowed, left with enough money to support herself in Paris since 1788, living off the meager income he received as a writer . Poorly educated, grammar, spelling and handwriting left much to be desired and his writings tended to be too wordy and pompous. Despite their sustained efforts, failed to be a bestselling author.
ridiculed for her outspoken and opinionated feminism, his early attempts to organize women, breakaway manifesto for women's rights and despised as a traitor to the revolution for opposing the death penalty against King Louis XVI and his family, became a target of the Jacobin Terror.
prolific political writer, came out clearly against repression and against Jacobin Robespierre and Marat. Accused of being a reactionary realist was guillotined in 1793.
However, the work of Olympe de Gouges went to the Once deeply feminist and revolutionary. Exalted ideas of the French Revolution, published in 1791 a manifesto entitled The Declaration on the Rights of Women and the Citizen. Modeled on the Declaration of 1789 and apply in full to women, wrote the hitherto most brilliant and radical plea for women's claims.
Gouges demanded equal treatment of women compared to men in all aspects of life, public and private: the right to vote, hold public office, to speak publicly on political issues, equal public honors, law private property, to participate in the military and education and even the same power in the family and church.
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