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)
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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
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