Olympe De Gouges Research Paper

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Jocelyn Dalton
Miss Gregory
World History
28 November 2017
Olympe De Gouges
Marie Gouze was born on May 7, 1748 in Montauban, France. She was a french social reformer. Marie was the daughter of Jean-Jacques LeFranc and Anne-Olympe Mouisset. Marie had married at the age of 16 and had a son. After the death of her first husband, Marie changed her name to Olympe De Gouges.
Olympe was a French playwright and a political activist. She was active in political and social causes ranging from divorce to the rights of orphaned children and abandoned mothers. She also wrote in defense of her ideas. Her pamphlet “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the [Female] Citizen” was adopted two years after “Declaration of the Rights of Man and the [Male]

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