The French social activist, feminist and playwright who fell out of favour with fellow revolutionaries and was executed at the guillotine. Show more She fought to give women the right to divorce and ...
She greeted the Revolution as the dawning of necessary change, only to discover that the égalité of the philosophes was conceived by those men elected to the Convention to be a right exclusively ...
The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson celebrates four women of the French Revolution: Olympe de Gouges, Charlotte Corday, Marianne Angelle, and Marie-Antoinette. Directed by Iris Sowlat, this touring ...
The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson celebrates four women of the French Revolution: Olympe de Gouges, Charlotte Corday, Marianne Angelle, and Marie-Antoinette. Directed by Iris Sowlat, this touring ...
She fought to give women the right to divorce and campaigned on behalf of children born out of wedlock. But in late 18th century France, her radical thinking proved too much for her contemporaries in ...