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Olympe de Gouges in an eighteenth-century portrait.Image: politics · Europe
Olympe de Gouges is guillotined
The French playwright and campaigner Olympe de Gouges was executed by guillotine in Paris on 3 November 1793, during the Terror. In 1791 she had published a Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, answering the revolution’s Declaration of the Rights of Man, After the fall of the Girondins, whom she had supported, she was arrested, tried for treason and condemned.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Olympe de Gouges ↗
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