| LC control no. | n 82116389 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PQ1985.G86 |
| Personal name heading | Gouges, Olympe de, 1748-1793 |
| Variant(s) | Gouze, Marie, 1748-1793 Auby, Marie Gouze, 1748-1793 De Gouges, Olympe, 1748-1793 Gouge, Madame de (Olympe), 1748-1793 |
| Birth date | 1748-05-07 |
| Death date | 1793-11-03 |
| Field of activity | Drama |
| Profession or occupation | Dramatists Political activists Playwrights |
| Found in | Blanc, O. Olympe de Gouges, c1981: t.p. (Olympe de Gouges) p. 18 (b. 1748; Marie Gouze) p. 23-25 (m. Louis-Yves Auby, soon widowed; took name: Olympe de Gouges) Le mariage inattendu de CheĢrubin, 1786: t.p. (Madame de Gouge) Reading Olympe de Gouges, 2013: ECIP data view (b. 7 May 1748; d. 3 November 1793; born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience; began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s; as political tension rose in France, de Gouges became increasingly politically involved; became an outspoken advocate for improving the condition of slaves in the colonies as of 1788; at the same time, she began writing political pamphlets; regarded today as 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; executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror for attacking the regime of the Revolutionary government and for her close relation with the Girondists) |
| Associated language | fre |
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