Olympe de Gouges
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De Gouges's Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen had been widely reproduced and influenced the writings of women's advocates in the Atlantic world.cite-ref-45[45] One year after its publication, in 1792, the keen observer of the French Revolution Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.cite-ref-46[46] Writings on women and their lack of rights became widely available. The experience of French women during the revolution entered the collective consciousness.
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