Coming from a modest Montalbanaise family, Marie Gouze moved to Paris on the death of her husband in 1766. She became known there under the pseudonym Olympes de Gouges through her writings and political battles and engaged in a fight against all injustices, mainly against those done to women and blacks. Convinced of the essential role of women in political life, she drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens (1791), considered the birth certificate of feminism. She dedicates it to Marie-Antoinette and advocates the emancipation of women through gender equality. She is one of the first feminists in history.
Affiliated with the Girondins, it protested against the violence carried out during the establishment of the new regime by openly opposing Robespierre in 1793, in particular in its poster Les trois urnes ou le salut de la patrie . She was arrested on July 20, 1793, condemned on November 2 and then guillotined the following day.
1748 - 1793
Status
Woman of letters
Revolutionary