French playwright and political activist Olympe de Gouges was born #OTD in 1748.
She is best known for writing the "Déclaration des droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne" in 1791, which she wrote as a response to the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" of 1789. Her advocacy for her revolutionary ideas led to her arrest and she was eventually guillotined in 1793 during the Reign of Terror for her political activities.
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