Olympe de Gouges Quotes
When the Constituent Assembly engaged men of letters to research the penal code in order to repeal the death penalty, even for the condemned, did they imagine that after four years of a revolution enlightened by philosophical ideals, the French would, without cease, kill their fellow citizens?
Ironically, just before the bloody French Revolution, there was a substantial movement in France to abolish the death penalty. But the revolution triggered a reign of terror that was shocking to all of Europe then and in the future.
Olympe de Gouges, 1748-1793, French Playwright, Abolitionist, Feminist, The Pride of Innocence or the Silence of True Patriotism, September 1792
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She had been asked what she had hoped to accomplish be killing Marat. Of all people Marat had been the most active and vigorous in calling for the beheading of thousands in the French Revolution. It was known as the Reign of Terror.
Marat was one of the leaders of the French Revolution who advocated the execution of so many people that became known as the “Reign of Terror.” His name is associated with massive bloody violence by the existing government. Morris observed that the English system executed far more people over the years, but was not looked upon as so heinous.
The revolution turned on many of its initiators including Vergniaud. He was guillotined along with other Girondists.
Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries.
