Oeuvres

by Olympe de Gouges, Benoîte Groult (Introduction)

4 Oeuvres de Olympe de Gouges

Ce livre numérique présente une collection de 4 oeuvres de Olympe de Gouges éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes oeuvres.

Liste des oeuvres:

- 1791 - Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne
- 1791 - Sera-t-il Roi, ne le sera-t-il pas ?
- 1792 - L’Esclavage des noirs ou l’Heureux Naufrage
- 1793 - Testament politique

256 pages, Paperback

Published October 2, 1986

About the author

Olympe de Gouges, born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience. She became an outspoken advocate for ameliorating the condition of slaves in the colonies and she began writing political pamphlets. Today she is perhaps best known as an early feminist who demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men.

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. She was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror for attacking the regime of Maximilien Robespierre and for her close relation with the Girondists.