Which one of the following statements about the Olympe de Gouges (1748

Which one of the following statements about the Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793) is correct ?

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She declared that although citizens should have equal rights, they are not entitled to the same honours by the State

She was a supporter of the Jacobin government

She was jailed for treason by the National Assembly

She declared that the nation is the union of woman and man

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UPSC NDA-1 – 2018

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The correct statement about Olympe de Gouges is that she declared that the nation is the union of woman and man.

Olympe de Gouges was a French social reformer and writer who challenged the revolutionary government’s exclusion of women from the rights granted to men. In her 1791 ‘Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen’, she explicitly stated, “The principle of all sovereignty rests essentially in the nation, which is but the union of woman and man”. This directly counters the notion that the nation is solely composed of male citizens.

Olympe de Gouges was a strong critic of the Jacobin government and advocated for equal rights for women, including the right to vote, own property, and participate in public life. She was eventually arrested, tried, and executed for sedition during the Reign of Terror, demonstrating that she was opposed to, rather than a supporter of, the Jacobin government. Option A contradicts her fundamental belief in equal rights. Option C is partially true in that she was jailed and executed for treason/counter-revolutionary views by the revolutionary authorities, but identifying the authority specifically as the “National Assembly” for the time of her execution (1793, during the Convention and Reign of Terror) might be imprecise, whereas statement D is a direct reflection of her core philosophy and text.

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