This week, Isaac and Demetria unpack the career of the firebrand revolutionary playwright Olympe de Gouges. Along the way, we tackle such important questions as: what was the French Revolution about? What even is feminism? And why is Isaac’s French accent so bad?
You can read her complete trial transcript here.
Featured image: Portrait of Olympe de Gouges by Alexander Kucharski (Image source)
Olympe’s pamplet, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, 1791. (Image source)
