2015 · Q103
Name the French revolutionary who wrote Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen.
General KnowledgeStatic General Awareness
- AOlympe de Gouges
- BNancy Ruhling
- CMaximilien Robespierre
- DMary Wollstonecraft
Explanation
Olympe de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen in 1791 during the French Revolution — she was guillotined in 1793 partly for her outspoken writings. Mary Wollstonecraft wrote the English Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Robespierre wrote no such declaration. Hence A.