Gouges, Olympia de

Gouges, Olympia de

▪ French writer
original name  Marie Gouze 
born May 7, 1748, Montauban, France
died November 4, 1793, Paris

      French social reformer and writer who challenged conventional views on a number of matters, including the role of women.

      Married at the age of 16 and the mother of a son, she changed her name after the death of her husband and vowed never to marry again. She became active in political causes and took up social issues that ranged from better roads to divorce, maternity hospitals, and the rights of orphaned children and of unmarried mothers, and she wrote prolifically in defense of her ideas. Among her plays was L'Esclavage des noirs (“Slavery of Blacks”), which was staged at the Théâtre-Français. In 1791 she published Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne (“Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the [female] Citizen”) as a reply to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which had been adopted two years earlier by the National Assembly. In her pamphlet she argued not only for an extension of rights to women but also for such matters as rights for children born outside marriage. De Gouges sided with the moderate Girondins against the Montagnards, defended Louis XVI, and called for a plebiscite to allow citizens to choose their form of government. After the fall of the Girondins in the summer of 1793, she was arrested, and she was sent to the guillotine on November 4.

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