Olympe de Gouges
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This podcast recounts the peculiar life and work of French playwright-turned-activist, Olympe de Gouges. We take a deeper look into her most famous work, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, which demanded gender equality in post-Revolution France.
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