Olympe Gouges Biography

Olympe de Gouges proposed a voluntary patriotic fund as a way to address the monarchy's financial crisis.

Olympe de Gouges proposed workshops for unemployed people and support for impoverished women, children and older people.

Olympe de Gouges asked the royal censor for permission to publish a Journal du peuple during the Estates General.

Olympe de Gouges addressed the Duke of Orleans while pressing her political reform agenda during the early Revolution.

Publishes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen

Publishes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.

Addresses her declaration to Marie Antoinette

Olympe Gouges addressed her declaration to Marie Antoinette.

Olympe de Gouges answers the male-centered political order with a Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.

Olympe de Gouges aligned herself with moderate Girondin politics after the fall of the monarchy.

Olympe de Gouges publicly opposed escalating revolutionary violence and criticized the politics associated with the Terror.

Olympe de Gouges was imprisoned because authorities regarded her political writings as counter-revolutionary.

Olympe de Gouges was executed after conviction by the Revolutionary Tribunal for her political publications.