Unending seek for female rights stopped its progress when the French Revolution ended and when Napoleon took control over France. He quoted that “the husband must possess the absolute power and right to say to his wife: Madame, you shall not go out, you shall not go to the theater, you shall not visit such and such a person: for the children you bear, they shall be mine.” He was an anti-feminist and banned all women movements and rights to stop to its end. However, that was only the short-term effect and the long-term effect on women’s rights prospered. Not just France itself, but many of the women rights in other parts of the Western world perfectly match up with the rights Olympe de Gouges proposed, giving women rights economically, politically
