Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan was a French man of letters and erudition, who published a considerable output of theatrical work, poems, literary criticism, and polemics; treatises on arch
Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan
Olympe de Gouges
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Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and aboliti
Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan
…Vienne and a favourite of the king, whose eulogy he delivered. Pompignan was also the alleged biological father of the French suffragist and playwright Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793). 1734: Didon (1734), tragedy created at the Comédie-Française 21 June…
Olympe de Gouges's son, Pierre Aubry
The Code Noir, a decree passed by King Louis XIV in 1685. The Code Noir defined the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire and restricted the activities of free Negroes
Olympe de Gouges, 1793