While women were excluded from political institutions, Olympe de Gouges took over the literary and theatrical scene, then the political speech with outstanding boldness. She ended up as the only woman ...
Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...
This was Olympe de Gouges (1748-93) and she was responding to The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen from 1789, the start of the French Revolution which, by excluding women from these ...