![]() At the age of 16, she was married against her will to a local caterer and gave birth to a child. She was born under the name of Marie Gouze in 1748 in Montauban, a small village in the South of France. Her progressive ideas and stances in favor of women´s rights make her one of the very first feminists in the modern era. She is mostly known for having written The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, where she criticized the French revolutionaries for not having considered women in their fight for equality. ![]() Playwright and political activist, she advocated for the emancipation of women and against slavery in a moment of great social transformation and uncertainty. The most famous among them is, of course, Marie Antoinette however, aside from the queen, another relevant female figure who died for her ideals is Olympe de Gouges. ![]() During the French Revolution of 1789, almost 400 women were executed by the guillotine. ![]()
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