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G A L L E R Y
Olympe de Gouges
1748 - Her Story - 1793
Marie Gouze was born in Montauban to a modest family ; her father was a butcher and her mother a servant.
Rumour would have it that she was the illegitimate childof the poet, the Marquis Le Franc de Pompignan, or even that she could be an illegitimate child of King Louis XV.
In 1765, Marie Gouze married Louis Aubry, a master of fine dining to the Intendant (provincial administrator), with whom she had a child 2 years later. Her husband died shortly afterwards and she moved with her child to Paris, not wishing to fulfil her role as a middle-class provincial. Dreaming of celebrity, she took the pseudonym of Olympe de Gouges, formed from her mother’s first name and her family name.
Montauban
She became a woman of letters, publishing, from 1780 onwards, novels and plays defending her modern opinions. The French Revolution gave Olympe de Gouges the occasion to show how much she was in advance of the times. In opposition to the Assemblée Constituante (Parliament), which excluded women from political rights, she published a text which is one of the foundations of origi
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Portrait of Olympes de Gouges by Alexander Kucharsky, Collection particulière
Olympe de Gouges, née Marie Gouze
*May 7, 1748 (Montauban, France)
†November 3, 1793 (Paris, France)
Spouses: Louis-Yves Aubry
Children: General Pierre Aubry de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges was a playwright and political activist during the French Revolution. She was born as Marie Gouze in Monauban as the daughter of Anne-Olympe Mouisset and Pierre Gouze, a butcher, but her biological father may have been Jean-Jacques Le Franc, Marquis de Pompignan. At 16, she was married against her will to Louis-Yves Aubry, who died two years later. Rejecting the institution of marriage, she gave herself the name Olympe de Gouge and moved to Paris with her young son, Pierre. The following years were spent in pursuit of her intellectual education, supported by Jacques Biétrix de Roziéres, a wealthy merchant. Soon, de Gouges established herself as a fixture in Parisian society; she held salons and began writing poetry, novellas, pamphlets and plays. A passionate advocate of human rights, de Gouges welcomed the outbreak of the Revolution, but soon became disillusioned when equal rights were not extended to women. By far her most well-known feminist work, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791