Gouges, Olympe de, 1748-1793

found: Blanc, O. Olympe de Gouges, c1981:t.p. (Olympe de Gouges) p. 18 (b. 1748; Marie Gouze) p. 23-25 (m. Louis-Yves Auby, soon widowed; took name: Olympe de Gouges)

found: Reading Olympe de Gouges, 2013:ECIP data view (b. 7 May 1748; d. 3 November 1793; born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience; began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s; as political tension rose in France, de Gouges became increasingly politically involved; became an outspoken advocate for improving the condition of slaves in the colonies as of 1788; at the same time, she began writing political pamphlets; regarded today as best known as an early feminist who demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men; In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality; executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror for attacking the regime of the Revolutionary government and for her close relation with the Girondists)