Question

Which one of the following statements about the Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793) is correct?

• A. She declared that although citizens should have equal rights, they are not entitled to the same honours by the state
• B. She was a supporter of the Jacobin government
• C. She was jailed for treason by the National Assembly
• D. She declared that the nation is the union of woman and man

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

She was jailed for treason by the National Assembly

Olympe de Gouges (7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793), born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience. She was an outspoken advocate against the slave trade in the French colonies in 1788. In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality.