Question

Assertion [A]: Olympe de Gouges opposed the Constitution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.

Reason [R]: She was a conservative and counter-revolutionary, who tried to ridicule the government.

• A. Both [A] and [R] are true, and [R] is the correct explanation of [A]
• B. Both [A] and [R] are true, and [R] is not the correct explanation of [A]
• C. [A] is true, but [R] is false
• D. [A] is false, but [R] is true

Answer 1

The correct option is C [A] is true, but [R] is false

Olympe de Gouges strongly opposed the National Assembly’s Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen as it excluded women from all the basic rights that every human being was entitled to. She wrote a document called the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen and sent it to the Queen and all the members of the National Assembly.