Marie olympe gouges biography of barack

She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism. Born in southwestern France, de Gouges began her prolific career as a playwright in Paris in the s. A passionate advocate of human rights, she was one of France's earliest public opponents of slavery.

Her plays and pamphlets spanned a wide variety of issues including divorce and marriage, children's rights , unemployment and social security. In addition to her being a playwright and political activist, she was also a small time actress prior to the Revolution. In , in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen , de Gouges published her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, in which she challenged the practice of male authority and advocated for equal rights for women.

Olympe de gouges death

Her increasingly vehement writings, which attacked Maximilien Robespierre's radical Montagnards and the Revolutionary government during the Reign of Terror , led to her eventual arrest and execution by guillotine in Her father may have been her mother's husband, Pierre Gouze, or she may have been the illegitimate daughter of Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan.

The Pompignan family had long-standing close ties to the Mouisset family of Marie Gouze's mother, Anne. Anne's father tutored him as he grew. During their childhoods, Pompignan became close to Anne, but was separated from her in when he was sent to Paris.