Question

who was olympe de gouges? what role did she play for women rights?

Answer 1

Olympe de Gouges was one of the most important of the politically active women in revolutionary France. She protested against the Constitution and the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen as they excluded women from basic rights that each human being was entitled to. So, in 1791, she wrote a Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen, which she addressed to the Queen and to the members of the National Assembly, demanding that they act upon it. In 1793, Olympe de Gouges criticised the Jacobin government for forcibly closing down women’s clubs. She was tried by the National Convention, which charged her with treason. Soon after this she was executed.
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Answer 2

(i) Olympe de Gouges was a playwright and political activist whose feminist writings reached a large audience.

(ii) As political tension rose in France, she became politically involved.

(iii) She was outspoken advocate for improving the conditions of slaves.

(iv) She wrote a 'Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen' and demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men.

(v) In 1793, she criticised the Jacobin government for forcibly closing down women's clubs.

(vi) She was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror for attacking Robespierre.

(vii) Today, she is best known as an early feminist who challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality