The person that I admire is......

Olympe de Gouges


Marie Gouze was born into a petit bourgeois family in 1748 in Motauban , in southwestern France. She believed that she was the illegitimate daughter of Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan and his rejection of her claims upon him may have influenced her passionate defence of the rights of illegitimate children.
In 1765 she married Louis Aubry, a caterer, who came from Paris with the new Itendant of the town. Her husband died later, and in 1770 she moved to Paris with her son, Pierre, and took the name of Olympe de Gouges.
De Gouges lived with several men who supported her financially. In 1773, she met Jacques Biétrix de Rozières, with whom she had a long relationship that ended during the revolution.
She wrote on such gender-related topics as the right of divorce and argued in favour of sexual relations outside of marriage.
A passionate advocate of human rights, she greeted the outbreak of the Revolution with hope and joy, but soon became disenchanted when égalité (equal rights) was not extended to women.
In response to the Declaration Of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, she wrote the Déclaration des droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne ("Declaration Of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen").
She was executed by guillotine during the Reing of Terror for attacking the regime of the Revolutionary government.