Olympe de Gouges, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Olympe de Gouges

French playwright and political activist

Date of Birth: 07-May-1748

Place of Birth: Montauban, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 03-Nov-1793

Profession: writer, politician, playwright, journalist, philosopher, feminist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Olympe de Gouges (French: [ol?~p d? gu?] (listen); 7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793), born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries.
She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s.
As political tension rose in France, Olympe de Gouges became increasingly politically engaged.
She became an outspoken advocate against the slave trade in the French colonies in 1788.
At the same time, she began writing political pamphlets.
Today she is perhaps best known as an early women's rights advocate who demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men.
In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality.
She was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror (1793–1794) for attacking the regime of the Revolutionary government and for her association with the Girondists.



Alternative names	Alexander Kucharski, Alexandre Couaski
Description	Polish-Russian painter
Date of birth/death	18 March 1741	5 November 1819
Location of birth/death	Warsaw	Paris
Work location	Paris, Warsaw
Authority control	: Q302693 VIAF: 66735319 ISNI: 0000 0000 6663 6096 ULAN: 500028228 LCCN: nb2007019515 WGA: KUCHARSKI, Aleksander WorldCat