In revolutionary France, Olympe de Gouges dared to ask an obvious question: if liberty and equality were universal, why didn’t they include women? In 1791, she rewrote the Revolution’s Declaration to demand full rights for women—voting, property, education, and political voice. Her words exposed the Revolution’s hypocrisy. For that courage, she was arrested, tried, and guillotined in 1793. Officials said she had “forgotten the virtues of her sex.” History proved otherwise. Olympe de Gouges was e