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[The unfortunate pregnancy of the first French feminist, Olympe de Gouges]
1Clinique Gynécologique et Obstétricale à la Faculté de Médecine de Lyon.
Olympe de Gouges, born in 1748, led in Paris, the brilliant and dissolute life of a rather mediocre writer and a passionate feminist, demanding for women the right to go into politics. Unfortunate mother, she offended Robespierre and was put in jail. Sentenced to death by Fouquier-Tinville, she simulated a pregnancy, as the execution of pregnant women was usually postponed until delivery. But Fouquier-Tinville disregarded this, since Olympe forty-five years old, the pregnancy unlikely and the medical reports inconclusive. Olympe was guillotined on November 3, 1793. Pons, the representative from Verdun, on April 12, 1795, made his colleagues adopt a resolution, specifying that pregnant women should not be executed and should be released.
Olympe de Gouges, born in 1748, led in Paris, the brilliant and dissolute life of a rather mediocre writer and a passionate feminist, demanding for women the right to go into politics. Unfortunate mother, she offended Robespierre and was put in jail. Sentenced to death by Fouquier-Tinville, she simulated a pregnancy, as the execution of pregnant women was usually postponed until delivery. But Fouquier-Tinville disregarded this, since Olympe forty-five years old, the pregnancy unlikely and the medical reports inconclusive. Olympe was guillotined on November 3, 1793. Pons, the representative from Verdun, on April 12, 1795, made his colleagues adopt a resolution, specifying that pregnant women should not be executed and should be released.