Olympe de Gouges demanded the regulation of prostitution and the dissolution of marriage, but when she criticized Maximillien Robespierre's Reign of Terror, he silenced her for good. In 1791, Olympe ...

Before Judith Butler and Simone de Beauvoir, but after Juana de Asbaje, there was a pioneering woman in the fight for women’s rights named Olympe de Gouges. Her real name was Marie Gouze, and she was ...

Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...

A group of historians, writers and elected officials demand the transfer of the remains to the Paris Pantheon of Olympe de Gouges, a pioneer in the fight for the abolition of slavery and women's ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French playwright who, in 1791, wrote The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. This was Olympe de Gouges (1748-93) and she was responding ...

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Will Olympe de Gouges be the seventh woman to enter the Pantheon, soon after Josephine Baker? According to historian Catherine Marand-Fouquet, Emmanuel Macron is waiting for an “opportunity”. To be ...

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