But used this myth of her novel birth as a reason for her talent as a writer, since that aristocrats had a reputation for a talent in writing. Despite what she made many contemporaries believe at the time, she was not actually the illegitimate offspring of a local noble.
One aspect that makes Olympe de Gouges especially interesting is the persona she created for herself, which is almost as interesting as her writing itself. After her short marriage she never remarried. She changed her name to Olympe de Gouges and moved to Paris. I was sacrificed for no reason that could make up for the repugnance I felt for this man.” Her husband died about a year after marriage. She writes about her husband in a semi-autobiographical novel stating that she was “married to a man I did not love and who was neither rich nor well-born. The couple had a son, but marriage was extremely unhappy. At the age of sixteen, she was married to a much older man. Her cornerstone piece is the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), published in 1791.ĭe Gouges was born in 1748 in southern France as the daughter of Anne Olympe Mouisset Gouze and Pierre Gouze, a butcher, Despite their humble circumstances her mother was able to pay for her to have some school education, which would eventually lead to her strengths in writing. She understood the political and social climate she lived in well and used her knowledge to propel both herself and her unconventional ideas at the time on the role of women in society. It would be quite hard to find a woman who was both as savvy and intelligent as the French writer and activist Olympe De Gouges, who gave women a voice during the French Revolution (1789-1798) until her death on the guillotine in 1793.
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