Olympe de Gouges was a woman in France during the 1700s. Normally a woman of this time period would be married, having children, and doing house work, but Olympe de Gouges was not the typical housewife that men expected her to be. She was an outspoken activist who truly changed France for the better. De Gouges fought for all people, women, Africans, orphans, the poor, the unemployed, the illegitimate, and the elderly. She did not do so by starting an all out rebellion, but using the little education she had, to write 40 plays, two novels, and almost 70 pamphlets that all focused on aspects of France she wanted to change. Her most famous work was the “Declaration of Rights of Woman”, which was written to challenge the writing of “Declaration
