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Olympe de Gouges (1748 - 1793)

Short name Olympe de Gouges
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First name Olympe
Birth name Gouges
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Alternative name Marie Gouge — Marie Gouze — Marie-Olympe de Gouges
Date of birth 1748
Date of death 1793
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Sex Female
Place of birth France
Place of death Paris
Lived in Paris , France
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Olympe de Gouges was ...
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Place(s) of Residence Paris , France
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L' homme généreux (1786) 1 0
Zamor et Mirza (1788) 0 0
Lettre au peuple, ou projet d'une caisse patriotique par une citoyenne (1788) 1 0
Mémoire de Madame de Valmont (1788) 0 0
Le cri du sage par une femme (1789) 0 0
Le bonheur primitif (1789) 1 0
Déclaration des droits de la femme (1791) 3 0
L’Esclavage des Noirs, ou l’heureux naufrage (1792) 0 0
Le couvent (1792) 0 0
Des trois urnes, ou le salut de la patrie (1793) 1 0

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Receptions of Olympe de Gouges, the person

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*Mention in Art. in De Gids Jacobs, Aletta 1899 -
As pioneiras do feminismo francês Pioneers of french feminism Cabete, Adelaide 1930 -

MENTIONED IN:
- Briquet 1804
- Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921
- Mitterand, Littérature XVIIIe 1987 (p. 286, 450)
- Buck, guide to women's literature, 1992: "Once widowed she left for Paris, adopted a pseudonym Olympe and began her career as a dramatist. All her works were dictated as she never learned to write herself".
Persoonsarchief in het IIAV

Born in Montauban.

MENTIONED IN:
- Offen, European feminisms, 2000