Which French activist wrote the 'Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen'?

Olympe de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen in 1791. The French playwright and political activist published it as a direct challenge to the Revolution’s Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

Born Marie Gouze in 1748, she adopted the name Olympe de Gouges after moving to Paris and became a prolific writer. Her declaration argued that women should enjoy the same civil and political rights as men, including participation in lawmaking and public life. Its famous argument insisted that if women could be punished by the state, they should also have the right to speak and participate in government.

De Gouges also opposed slavery, supported civil rights, and criticized revolutionary violence. She was associated with the Girondins and opposed the execution of Louis XVI. During the Reign of Terror, her political writings led to her arrest and execution by guillotine in 1793. Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the wrong options, wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792, but not the French declaration.