People/CharactersOlympe de Gouges

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Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793), born Marie Gouze, was a writer and women's rights activist during the period of the French Revolution. She is most famous for her "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen." She was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror.
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