Olympe, une femme dans la Révolution (2024)
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Julie Gayet, Dimitri Storoge, Pauline Serieys, Jean-Pierre Lorit
During the French Revolution, Olympe de Gouges challenges women’s exclusion from political rights and opposes Maximilien de Robespierre.
The story
In Paris, four years after the storming of the Bastille, women’s rights remain sidelined despite the Revolution’s promise of freedom. Writer, humanist and activist Olympe de Gouges responds by publishing the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. She also proposes three political choices for France: an indivisible republic, a federalist republic, or a return to constitutional monarchy. Through these proposals, she challenges the political order and comes into opposition with Maximilien de Robespierre.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
We are in Paris in , four years after the storming of the Bastille, at the very heart of the French Revolution. Despite a wind of freedom, women see their rights set aside. Olympe de Gouges, a woman of letters, a humanist and an activist, opposes this injustice by publishing the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. She also has a poster published, The Three Ballot Boxes, or the Salvation of the Fatherland, proposing an election with three choices: a single and indivisible republic, a federalist republic, or a return to constitutional monarchy. In doing so, she opposes Maximilien de Robespierre. Arrested by the police and transferred to a remand prison, she decides to continue her fight alongside other condemned women, all from different backgrounds. Brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal, she is sentenced to death and guillotined in Paris on .
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