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Olympe de Gouges — Woman of letters, died in 1793
Born Marie Gouze, married at seventeen and widowed at eighteen, she made herself a name out of her mother’s and went up to Paris, where she wrote plays, pamphlets against slavery and for divorce, and in 1791 a Declaration modelled on that of 1789. Close to the Girondins and opposed to the king’s execution, she was condemned by the Revolutionary Tribunal for her writings and died the day after her hearing. (Editorial synthesis)
Olympe de Gouges was born on 7 May 1748. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Olympe de Gouges was born in Montauban. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Olympe de Gouges died on 3 November 1793. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Olympe de Gouges died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Olympe de Gouges died of her execution by guillotine. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Recorded work of Olympe de Gouges: the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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