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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, widely rumoured to be Olympe de Gouges's father
Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan, widely rumoured to be Olympe de Gouges's father
Olympe de Gouges's son, Pierre Aubry
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 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
Olympe de Gouges, 1793
Maximilien Robespierre
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Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognised as one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre fervently campaigned
Olympe de Gouges
…women. De Gouges was associated with the moderate Girondins and opposed the execution of Louis XVI. Her increasingly vehement writings, which attacked Maximilien Robespierre's radical Montagnards and the Revolutionary government during the Reign of Terror, led to her eventual arrest and execution by guillotine in 1793. Marie…
c. 1790 portrait
c. 1790 portrait
1794 print with the slogan "Supreme Being, Sovereign People, French Republic". An elderly Voltaire is depicted along with a bust of Brutus and the gra
1794 print with the slogan "Supreme Being, Sovereign People, French Republic". An elderly Voltaire is depicted along with a bust of Brutus and the grave of Rousseau.
Between 1787 and 1789 Robespierre lived in this house, now on Rue Maximilien de Robespierre
Between 1787 and 1789 Robespierre lived in this house, now on Rue Maximilien de Robespierre
The revolutionary decrees passed by the Assembly in August 1789 culminated in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
The revolutionary decrees passed by the Assembly in August 1789 culminated in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.