Human rights documents pertaining to the French Revolution (1789-1799)

Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (August 1789), accessible under http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/declaration.html:

• created during the French Revolution
• highly influential human rights document
• adopted in 1789 by the French Assemblée nationale constituante (National Constituent Assembly)
• did not grant women equal rights
   

The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (September 1791), accessible under http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/293/:

• modelled on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
• published by Olympe de Gouges to - unsuccessfully - challenge the unequal status granted to women by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
• Olympe de Gouges was executed in November 1793
• French women got the right to vote in 1944