![]() Olympe De Gouges was by no means the only woman who showed dissatisfaction with the new reforms in France. Mathew Lyons Published in History Today Volume 70 Issue 11 November 2020 Olympe de Gouges, anonymous, 18th century Bridgeman Images. Was Olympe De Gouges truly an opponent of the French Revolution? Did she have a hidden agenda? Was she sent to the guillotine because Robespierre and his follower were eager to remove a threatening political opponent who could “poison” the views of other women? Her life story shows that those in power feared the rise of feminism during the French Revolution. Months Past Execution of a Feminist Olympe de Gouges was executed for sedition on the order of the Revolutionary Tribunal on 3 November 1793. Having an enemy like Maximilien de Robespierre was in those days disastrous. Deep down she knew that her written words and acts would cause her death. ![]() She was considered so radical that she was labeled insane long after her death. ![]() In response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man, in 1791, she wrote Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen. Credit: Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, Public DomainĪs a woman, she had the guts to speak her mind and this made her very unpopular in a male-dominated society. De Gouges was a self-educated, French widow who wanted the human rights in the French Constitution to be equal and parallel for both men and women. Credit: Public Domain - Right: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 26 August 1789. ![]()
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