Olympe de Gouges
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🗓️ 18 January 2021
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Summary
Olympe de Gouges is known primarily for her 1791 pamphlet “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Citizen.” But her writing and political activity went far beyond that one pamphlet, and she was actually executed for a completely different reason.
Tracy's Research:
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| 0:47.4 | We have gotten a lot of requests over the years for an episode on Olam Deguge. |
| 0:53.9 | Who's known, at least outside of France, primarily for a 1791 pamphlet titled |
| 1:01.9 | Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Citizen. |
| 1:05.5 | And this was published as a direct response to the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, |
| 1:13.3 | with the Declaration of Rights of Man using the French word sitoyen, |
| 1:18.6 | and Deguge's response using the more feminine form of that word sitoyen. |
| 1:26.0 | They look very different in writing, but they're pronounced a little similarly. |
| 1:32.2 | Olam Deguge's writing and political activity, though, went way, way beyond that one pamphlet |
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