Question

Write some of the basic rights set forth in olympe de Gouges’ Declaration

Answer 1

Marie Gouze (1748–93) was a self–educated butcher’s daughter from the south of France who, under the name Olympe de Gouges, wrote pamphlets and plays on a variety of issues, including slavery, which she attacked as being founded on greed and blind prejudice. In this pamphlet she provides a declaration of the rights of women to parallel the one for men, thus criticizing the deputies for having forgotten women. She addressed the pamphlet to the Queen, Marie Antoinette, though she also warned the Queen that she must work for the Revolution or risk destroying the monarchy altogether. In her postscript she denounced the customary treatment of women as objects easily abandoned. She appended to the declaration a sample form for a marriage contract that called for communal sharing of property. De Gouges went to the guillotine in 1793, condemned as a counterrevolutionary and denounced as an "unnatural" woman.

Answer 2

1. Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights.

2. The goal of all political associations is the preservation of the natural rights of woman and man. These rights are liberty, property,security and above all resistance to oppression.

3. The source of all sovereignty resides in the nation,which is nothing but the union of woman and man.

4. The law should be expression of the genersl will,all female and male citizens should have a say either personally or by their representatives in its formulation.

4. No woman is an exception,she is accused ,arrested and detained in cases determined by law,woman,like man, obey this rigorous law.

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