Olympe de Gouges publishes the Rights of Woman
1791 · Event
Playwright Olympe de Gouges answers the Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man clause by clause with a Declaration of the Rights of Woman: 'woman has the right to mount the scaffold; she must equally have the right to mount the rostrum'. The Terror grants her only the first — she is guillotined in 1793.
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