In the early days of revolutionary enthusiasm, many women took an active interest in politics, believing that the spirit of reform offered them new freedoms. During the Revolution she became France’s most audacious and forthright proponent of women’s rights, a career cut short by the guillotine in November 1793. The campaign to rehabilitate the reputation of Olympe de Gouges, an extraordinary author and activist of the French Revolution, has been long and difficult.īorn in Montauban in 1748, Olympe de Gouges made her mark on Parisian society as a socialite before turning her attention to literature. Throughout France, a small but growing number of roads bear the same name all were inaugurated within the last thirty years, Gouges died in 1793. In March 2004, in a modest ceremony followed by a buffet, a previously unnamed crossroads in Paris was named ‘Place Olympe de Gouges’.
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