Which French writer and activist authored the “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen”?

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Olympe de Gouges was a playwright and political activist during the French Revolution. In 1791, she published the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen in direct response to the exclusion of women from the revolutionary idea of universal rights. The text made her one of the clearest early voices for civic and political equality between men and women.