Olympe de Gouges Dies: Feminist's Voice Silenced by Guillotine
The guillotine silenced Olympe de Gouges after she penned the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen to demand equality during the French Revolution. Her execution forced a stark reality: even as revolutionaries dismantled the monarchy, they refused to extend those same rights to women, entrenching a gendered exclusion that would take over a century to challenge.
November 3, 1793
233 years ago
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