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Olympe de Gouges
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.
Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
History-making declaration, based on the assumption that women should be made full active citizens after the French Revolution.
Olympe de Gouges and the Rights of Woman
From your About.com Guide to Women's History, an article on the woman who argued that the "Rights of Man" should extend to Woman, too - and ended up at the guillotine.