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How did Olympe de Gouges promote equality for women in France during the late eighteenth century?

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Olympe de Gouges

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Olympe de Gouges known as a playwright who later became an important figure in France as she began to write about equality for women in France. In 1791 she wrote the Declaration of the rights of women, created after the Declaration of the rights of man... According to her, a woman is born free and continues as equal to a man in rights...The purpose of a state is the protection of the natural rights of man and woman.

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