Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793)
Author of The Declaration of the Rights of Women
About the Author
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Olympe de Gouges was a nom de plume. Her birth name was Marie Gouze.
Works by Olympe de Gouges
Die Rechte der Frau und andere Texte: Mit einem Essay von Margarete Stokowski. [Was bedeutet das alles?] (Reclams… (2018) 5 copies
Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne - Bac 2022 - Parcours "Écrire et combattre pour l'égalité" (2021) 4 copies
Classique Olympe de Gouges, Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne: Texte intégral et dossier… (2021) 2 copies
BiblioLycée - Déclaration des Droits de la femme et de la citoyenne, Olympe de Gouges - BAC 2022:… (2021) 1 copy
Avante Mulheres - Declaracao dos Direitos da Mulher e da Cidada e outros textos (Em Portugues do Brasil) (2019) 1 copy
Adresse au Don Quichotte du Nord. Signé Marie-Olympe de Gouges. Suivi de la Fierté de l'innocence, ou le Silence du… (1792) 1 copy
Commemorating Mirabeau: 'Mirabeau aux Champs-Elysées' and other texts (MHRA Critical Texts) (2017) 1 copy
Arret de mort 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Gouges, Olympe de
- Legal name
- Gouze, Marie
- Other names
- Gouges, Marie-Olympe de
- Birthdate
- 1748-05-07
- Date of death
- 1793-11-03
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Montauban, France
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Cause of death
- terrorism
guillotined - Places of residence
- Paris, France
- Occupations
- feminist
political activist
journalist
playwright
pamphleteer
human rights activist (show all 7)
women's rights activist - Relationships
- Beauharnais, Fanny de (friend)
- Short biography
- Olympe de Gouges was the pseudonym of Marie Gouze, born in Montauban, Quercy (present-day Tarn-et-Garonne) in southwestern France. Her mother Anne Olympe Mouisset Gouze was the daughter of a bourgeois family, but the identity of her biological father is ambiguous. In 1765, at age 16 or 17, she was married against her will to Louis Yves Aubry, a caterer, with whom she had a son. Shortly afterwards, her husband died in a flood and Marie moved to Paris. There she began visiting the salons and became a playwright and human rights activist under the name Olympe de Gouges. A handful of her 30 or so plays was staged by the Comédie Française, the national theater of France. In 1788, she published Réflexions sur les hommes nègres, which opposed the practice of slavery in the French colonies. Today she is perhaps best known as an early women's rights advocate. In her Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne (Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, 1791), she challenged the patriarchy and the denial of equality to women. She also wrote the semi-autobiographical Mémoire de Madame de Valmont sur l’ingratitude et la cruauté de la famille de Flaucourt (Memoir of Mme de Valmont, 1788). As the French Revolution became more heated, her forceful expression of opinions and influence were considered dangerous by the men in power. She was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror. Although Olympe de Gouges was a celebrity in her lifetime and reached a large audience, she fell into obscurity -- before being rediscovered in the 1980s through a biography by historian Olivier Blanc.
- Disambiguation notice
- Olympe de Gouges was a nom de plume. Her birth name was Marie Gouze.
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