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    Olympe de Gouges (), Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, 1

    1In , the actress, playwright, fervent participant in the Revolution, and Girondist sympathiser, Olympe de Gouges, wrote her famous Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. She dedicated it to the queen, Marie Antoinette, not that it helped either of them or indeed its own reception. Both perished on the guillotine within a month of each other. Olympe dem Gouges’s Declaration of Rights was not adopted in any respect.

    Portrait of Olympe de Gouges by Alexandre Kucharsky

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    2The mothers, daughters, and sisters who together make up the female representatives of the Nation ask that they be constituted as a National Assembly. Considering ignorance of, neglect of, or contempt for the rights of women to be the sole causes of public misfortune and governmental corruption, they have resolved to set out, in a solemn declaration, the natural, inalienable, and sacred rig

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    At the origins of feminism: Ideas of Olympe de Gouges in the context of radical egalitarian doctrines of the French Revolution (–)

    References

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      “Woman has the right to mount the scaffold;

      she must equally have the right to mount the rostrum”

      -Olympe De Gouges,

      Of the three books Olympe De Gouges wrote in her lifetime they all had to do with fighting for women's rights. With her main goal being that women should have the same rights as men. She strongly believed in this cause making her one of the early feminist philosophers in the history of the Enlightenment.  

      Olympe De Gouges Accomplishments

      Around , at 16 or 17 years old, Olympe De Gouges was married and nearly three years after was widowed with a son. Afterward she abandoned her son to pursue her interest in writing and later on fighting for women. She soon moved to Paris to inform herself on intellectual and political matters.

       Soon after her move she begun to write and although she was told that she was illiterate her familiarity with Moliere, Paine, Diderot, Rousseau,