Madeleine cemetery
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Madeleine Cemetery is a former cemetery in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and was one of the four cemeteries used to dispose of the corpses of guillotine victims during the French Revolution. The cemetery was named after Mary Magdalene, known in French as Sainte-Madeleine.
Plaque in the Catacombs of Paris indicating the placement of the bones transferred from the Madeleine Cemetery
Chapelle expiatoire roses blanches
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 abolitionism.
Olympe de Gouges' 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