Question

Write a brief note on the life of a revolutionary woman-olympe de gouges.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Olympe de Gouges was politically active in revolutionary France. She protested against the Constitution and the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen because they did not even give basic political rights to women.

Thus, in 1791, she wrote a Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen. In 1793, Olympe de Gouges criticised the Jacobin government for forcibly closing down women’s clubs. She was later charged with treason and executed.

Answer 2

Olympe de Gouges was a French political activist & playwright whose writings on "women's rights & abolitionism" had reached a large audience in various nations.

Explanation:

• In the early 1780s, she started her career as a novelist. Olympe de Gouges became more and more politically active as political unrest grew in France. In 1788 she was a strong champion of trafficking in slavery in the French colonies. She started to write political brochures at the same time.
• She is probably currently most well known as an early advocate for women's rights who sought to give French women the "same rights" as French men. She called into question the tradition of male supremacy and the idea of male-female disparity in her "Declaration of the Rights of Woman & the Female Citizen (1791)".
• The Jacobins of the "Montagnard faction" arrested, imprisoned, & sent to guillotine on 2 July 1793, popular Girondins. During the Reign of Terror (1793–94) she was "executed" by a "guillotine" for criticising the Revolutionary Govt system & its connection with the Girondists.

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