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  • "Olympe" -- he called her Olympe, as if she were an old acquaintance, and so she might have been considered by that time -- "is a wonderful creature; but this will never do.

    Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 Various 1902

  • How marvellous they were we understand easily when we look at "Olympe".

    Modern Painting 1892

  • The drawing is less angular, less constipated than that of "Olympe".

    Modern Painting 1892

  • But in "Olympe" we find Manet departing from the individual to the universal.

    Modern Painting 1892

  • Touche '(The Touchstone), with Jules Sandeau;' Philberte, 'a comedy of the last century;' Le M.riage d'Olympe '(Olympia's M.rriage);' Le Gendre de M. Poirier '(M. Poirier's Son-in-Law);' Ceinture Dorée '(The Golden

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • We forget that the 1793 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen categorically excluded women -- a decision that sent feminist Olympe de Gouges to the guillotine -- and that this women-hating attitude continued in France for another 151 years until women were officially given the vote in 1944, by which time many of us who supported Hillary Clinton for President were toddlers.

    Nancy Graham Holm: History, Feminism And The Growing Gender Jihad Nancy Graham Holm 2011

  • We forget that the 1793 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen categorically excluded women -- a decision that sent feminist Olympe de Gouges to the guillotine -- and that this women-hating attitude continued in France for another 151 years until women were officially given the vote in 1944, by which time many of us who supported Hillary Clinton for President were toddlers.

    Nancy Graham Holm: History, Feminism And The Growing Gender Jihad Nancy Graham Holm 2011

  • 'French feminists and the rights of man: Olympe De Gouge's declarations'.

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • Marie Antoinette, Olympe de Gouges (a monarchist and a feminist) and Madame Roland (a Girondin) followed in the next few months, and the Jacobins also banned all women's political associations, such as the well-known Society of Revolutionary

    Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England' 2007

  • As early as October 1789, the playwright Olympe de Gouges proposed a reform program to the National Assembly that encompassed legal sexual equality, admission for women to all occupations, and the suppression of the dowry system through a state-provided alternative.

    The Snowbank 2009

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