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Olympe De Gouges – First French Feminist Challenged Maximilien de Robespierre And The Jacobins

AncientPages.com | November 12, 2018

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Olympe de Gouges is today remembered as a courageous female hero who fought with passion for women’s equal rights. She was the first French

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On This Day In History: Storming Of The Paris Fortress – Prison Bastille – On July 14, 1789

AncientPages.com | July 14, 2016

AncientPages.com - On July 14th, 1789, Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops attacked the Paris fortress-prison Bastille. The Bastille, a royal fortress that symbolized the tyranny of the Bourbon