Olympe de Gouges (7 maio 1748 ano – 3 nov 1793 ano)

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Born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on Women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience. She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s. She was an ardent advocate of many human rights, especially equality for women, at a time when those beliefs were considered radical. She wrote dozens of pamphlets during the French Revolution, calling for slave emancipation, rights for single mothers and orphans, and free speech for women.She eventually die to a Guillotine.

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