ABSTRACT
Olympe de Gouges started to elaborate several projects and to consider various social reforms. She also suggested creating state work-groups for unemployed workers, as well as agrarian reform; in this she based herself upon Abbot Morelly's thesis, developed in his Code de la nature of 1755. Olympe, who gravitated toward the moderates and was a sympathizer, probably knew about the Declaration's elaboration, and this may have given her some hope, although dashed quite quickly, provoking her reflections upon women's rights. The Declaration's first three articles were inspired by propositions made by Mounier. Three different "trends" existed within the National Assembly: the "counterrevolutionaries", the "patriots", and the moderates, called "mounierists" because they assembled around Mounier. The purpose of every political association is the conservation of the natural and inalienable rights of woman and of man; these rights are liberty, property, safety, and especially resistance to oppression.
