SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Olympe de Gouges

1748 - 1793

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Olympe de Gouges (French: [ɔlɛ̃p də ɡuʒ] ; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism. Born in southwestern France, de Gouges began her prolific career as a playwright in Paris in the 1780s. A passionate advocate of human rights, she was one of France's earliest public opponents of slavery. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Olympe de Gouges is the 44th most popular social activist (down from 24th in 2019), the 445th most popular biography from France (down from 273rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Social Activist.

Olympe de Gouges is most famous for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Olympe de Gouges ranks 44 out of 840. Before her are Irena Sendler, Omar Mukhtar, Simon Wiesenthal, Sadako Sasaki, Lady Godiva, and Simon bar Kokhba. After her are Bhagat Singh, Alfred Hermann Fried, Thomas Müntzer, Sophie Scholl, Emma Goldman, and Emmeline Pankhurst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Olympe de Gouges ranks 7. Before her are Jacques-Louis David, Jeremy Bentham, Charles XIII of Sweden, Charles IV of Spain, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, and Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès. After her are Claude Louis Berthollet, Adam Weishaupt, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, William V, Prince of Orange, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, and Adamantios Korais. Among people deceased in 1793, Olympe de Gouges ranks 7. Before her are Louis XVI of France, Marie Antoinette, Madame du Barry, Jean-Paul Marat, Carlo Goldoni, and Charlotte Corday. After her are John Michell, Yolande de Polastron, Francesco Guardi, Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Madame Roland, and Jean Sylvain Bailly.

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In France

Among people born in France, Olympe de Gouges ranks 445 out of 6,770. Before her are Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805), Napoléon, Prince Imperial (1856), Théophile Gautier (1811), Gérard Philipe (1922), Charles Le Brun (1619), and Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728). After her are Hans Bethe (1906), Anouk Aimée (1932), Ernest Renan (1823), Henry of Flanders (1174), Jean Genet (1910), and Nicolas Malebranche (1638).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In France

Among social activists born in France, Olympe de Gouges ranks 2. Before her are Charlotte Corday (1768). After her are Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Louise Michel (1830), René Just Haüy (1743), Flora Tristan (1803), Edmond James de Rothschild (1845), René Cassin (1887), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Abbé Pierre (1912), and Balthasar Gérard (1557).

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