French playwright and feminist, author during the French Revolution of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Citizen. She was executed at the guillotine.

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Olympe de Gouges, playwright and author of the Rights of Woman and of the Citizen.

Happy Bastille Day! - Read about Olympe de Gouges: she thought that the French Revolution's call for the rights of man should include women's rights -- and ended up losing her head. • Olympe de Gouges and the Rights of Woman • About Olympe de Gou

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