1791

The Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizenship affirms the dignity of women and the recognition of their fundamental rights and freedoms. Also, women’s right to vote is accepted. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Citizen is a text written on September 5, 1791 by the French writer Olympe de Gouges paraphrasing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen proclaimed on August 26, 1789, the fundamental text of the French Revolution. The genre of the book is philosophical.