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The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen — Olympe de Gouges’s text modelled on the 1789 Declaration, published as a pamphlet in 1791
A preamble, seventeen articles and a postamble, printed on pages 5 to 17 of a twenty-four-page pamphlet entitled The Rights of Woman and addressed to the queen, without a bookseller’s name. The text takes up the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen article by article, putting woman into it; the Assembly, which it asked to decree it, did not debate it, and it was not reprinted in full until the twentieth century. (Editorial synthesis)
The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen was published in September 1791. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
Recorded author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen: Olympe de Gouges.
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