Olympe de Gouges, born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political thinker of the Revolutionary era. She is remembered above all as the author of the 1791 Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, which she modeled on the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and answered in seventeen articles. Her argument was that the natural rights the Revolution claimed for men belong without distinction to women, and that the law must therefore reach women as well. Later commentary groups her with the Enlightenment, with feminism and with political philosophy. She also stood against the Jacobin Terror and openly denounced Robespierre, a stand that led to her execution by guillotine in November 1793 at the age of forty-five. Her writing is cited today as an early and sharply argued case for equal citizenship, made from outside the academy by a woman of the theatre.
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Olympe de Gouges was a French philosopher of the Modern era.
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Born in southwestern France, de Gouges began her prolific career as a playwright in Paris in the 1780s.
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Olympe de Gouges was born in 1748 and died in 1793.
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Her opposition to the Jacobin Terror and her open denunciations of Robespierre led to her execution by guillotine in November 1793 at the age of forty-five.
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Olympe de Gouges was a French philosopher of the Modern era.
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Olympe de Gouges, born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political philosopher of the Revolution
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Olympe de Gouges was associated with Enlightenment, Feminism, and Political Philosophy.
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Olympe de Gouges was associated with Enlightenment, Feminism, and Political Philosophy.
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Olympe de Gouges was associated with Enlightenment, Feminism, and Political Philosophy.
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Olympe de Gouges was associated with Enlightenment, Feminism, and Political Philosophy.
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Olympe de Gouges was associated with Enlightenment, Feminism, and Political Philosophy.
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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.
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In 1791, influenced and inspired by John Locke's treatises on natural rights
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