Mousset, Sophie

Women's Rights And the French Revolution : A Biography of Olympe De Gouges

Sent to the guillotine for publishing her "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen" in 1791, Olympe de Gouges advocated rights for women that foreshadowed western societal concerns by 150 years. Sophie Mousset's is the first biography of this astonishing, little-known woman visionary