Question

Write short note on-Olympe de-Gouges. ( 8 points)

Answer 1

Answer:

Olympe de Gouges. listen); 7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793), born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries. She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s.

Born: 7 May 1748, Montauban

Works written: Declaration of the Rights of Wo...

Died: 3 November 1793

Profession: Playwright

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Answer 2

An active politician and playwright, Olympe de Gouges was born in France.

• Her compositions on females' freedom and abolitionism contacted an enormous crowd in different nations. She started her vocation as a dramatist in the mid 1780s.  
• As political pressure rose in France, Olympe de Gouges turned out to be progressively politically locked in. She turned into a frank supporter of the slave exchange in the French settlements in 1788.
• Gouges composed about 40 plays. They frequently had socially basic topics.  
• Some of her plays were distributed and some stay survived. A record of her papers which were confiscated in 1793 consists of around 40 plays.
• Among different topics, she composed plays on the slave exchange, divorce, marriage, indebted individuals' penitentiaries, youngsters' freedoms, and government work plans for the jobless.  
• As a writer, she surged into contemporary political debates and was many times in the vanguard.
• A manifesto entitled "Letter to the people, or project for a patriotic fund" was the first political pamphlet de Gouges published over the course of her career. She published around 68 pamphlets.
• Despite the fact that she was a big name in the course of her life and a productive creator, Gouges turned out to be to a great extent neglected, however at that point rediscovered through a political memoir by Olivier Blanc during the 1980s.

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