EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Olympe De Gouges, Toussaint Louverture, Louis Xvi Of France
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Born maria gouze in a petit bourgeois family. After she died she moved to paris. Attended salons, lived with a number of men, changed her name, wrote plays, and became politically active. Was an abolitionist and wrote pamphlets and a play against slavery in the french colonies. Olympe de gouges - published her declaration of the rights of women and the social contract between man and woman in the same year as the declaration of the rights of man. Opposed the killing of king louis xvi and capital punishment in general. She was allied with the revolutionary group called the girondists who were replaced and killed by the more radical jacobins at the start of the reign of terror, 1792. Revolution in the french colony of saint-domingue. Ideals of the french revolution, though in practice limited, could also inspire others. Black jacobins - toussaint l"ouverture and the san domingo revolution by clr james.
