ABSTRACT
Women in France were qualified for the vote only in 1944; 150 years before this, after the French Revolution, the philosopher Nicolas de Condorcet and the first French feminist Olympe de Gouges laid down their lives for that women could claim the same rights as men. In this chapter, the author compares Madame de Gouges’ Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen with Condorcet’s Declaration of Rights to understand how they influenced the development of feminism and whether the feminist thought is still challenging in France.
