Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
여성과 여성 시민의 권리 선언
Declaration published by Olympe de Gouges in September 1791 in the pamphlet The Rights of Woman. To the Queen, claiming women's rights in the seventeen-article form of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. It was a personal writing, not an enacted law.
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De Gouges wrote the text on 14 September 1791, published it the next day and dedicated it to Queen Marie Antoinette. Article 10 states that if woman has the right to mount the scaffold she must equally have the right to mount the rostrum, the best-known line of the declaration. Besides the preamble and seventeen articles, the pamphlet contains a postscript and a form of social contract between man and woman. De Gouges was guillotined for treason on 3 November 1793. On 30 October of the same year the National Convention adopted a decree banning women's political associations.
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