ABSTRACT
The chapter models the oeuvre-based approach, which does not have a following or a school devoted to it, but comprises an omnipresent interpretive move. This move is to explain an unclear passage or text by drawing connections from texts that the same author also authored. The case in this chapter is Olympe de Gouges’s poster The Three Urns. Allegedly, she was the only woman to be guillotined for her political writings in the aftermath of the French Revolution. What she had written on that poster for everyone to see in the streets of Paris was a key issue at the trial that brought her to the scaffold.
