Everywhere you will find them mingled everywhere they cooperate in harmonious togetherness in this immortal masterpiece. Go back to animals, consult the elements, study plants, finally glance at all the modifications of organic matter, and surrender to the evidence when I offer you the means search, probe, and distinguish, if you can, the sexes in the administration of nature. Tell me, what gives you sovereign empire to oppress my sex? Your strength? Your talents? Observe the Creator in his wisdom survey in all her grandeur that nature with whom you seem to want to be in harmony, and give me, if you dare, an example of this tyrannical empire. Man, are you capable of being just? It is a woman who poses the question you will not deprive her of that right at least. In it, de Gouges demanded political and social rights for women. In 1791, dissatisfied with the unequal position women continued to hold in spite of the Revolution, she wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Women, and addressed it to the queen, rather than to Louis XVI or the National Assembly. Olympe de Gouges, the daughter of a provincial butcher, was one who felt that the declaration of 1789 did not go far enough. The political and intellectual ferment of the Revolution also gave rise to a new assertiveness by some French women.
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