THE WOMEN OF THE REVOLUTION

ALISON EDWARDS* (she/her) Olympe de Gouges

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OLYMPE DE GOUGES (174 8 – 1793) was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries. She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s. As political tension rose in France, Olympe de Gouges became increasingly politically engaged.1

TIA MARIE TANZER Marianne Angelle

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MARIANNE ANGELLE is an invented amalgamation of historical figures. The historical Olympe De Gouges would not have known any San Dominguean / Haitian freedom fighters so she invents one. Thankfully we are starting to have much more scholarship on the critical and inspiring role Black women played in the Haitian Revolution. When writing Marianne’s character, playwright Lauren Gunderson “looked mostly to the little we know about Suzanne Simone Baptiste Louverture, wife of Toussaint Louverture.”2

1: Wikipedia contributors. (2023, February 11). Olympe de Gouges. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympe_de_Gouges

2: T. (2022, July 9). Great Question: Why is Marianne Invented? The Revolutionists. https://therevolutionists.tumblr.com/ post/689333661381869568/great-question-why-is-marianne-invented

3: Wikipedia contributors. (2023b, February 27). Charlotte Corday. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Corday

4: Wikipedia contributors. (2023b, February 18). Marie Antoinette. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette

- Olympe De Gouges

JASMINE PORTER (she/her) Charlotte Corday

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Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (1768 –1793), known as CHARLOTTE CORDAY, was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed by guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, had played a substantial role in the political purge of the Girondins, with whom Corday sympathized. In 1847, writer Alphonse de Lamartine gave Corday the posthumous nickname l'ange de l'assassinat (the Angel of Assassination).3

JANE FROILAND* (she/her) Marie Antoinette

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MARIE-ANTOINETTE, (1755 – 1793), was Austrian queen consort of King Louis XVI of France. Her name is associated with the decline of the French monarchy. Her rejection of reform provoked unrest, and her policy of court resistance to the progress of the French Revolution finally led to the overthrow of the monarchy in August 1792.4