A group of historians, writers and elected officials demand the transfer of the remains to the Paris Pantheon of Olympe de Gouges, a pioneer in the fight for the abolition of slavery and women's ...

Olympe de Gouge, Marie Curie, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Durand, George Sand ... such women have contributed to the social, political and artistic development of Paris. But they don't pop up in ...

The French social activist, feminist and playwright who fell out of favour with fellow revolutionaries and was executed at the guillotine. Show more She fought to give women the right to divorce and ...

Around a hundred feminists gathered outside the Paris Panthéon on Monday to protest against the lack of women buried in the prestigious mausoleum, where the remains of Victor Hugo and Voltaire, among ...

Those of us who’ve been waiting patiently for one of the state’s professional theaters to do a show by Lauren Gunderson — currently one of the country’s most produced living playwrights — can feel ...

She fought to give women the right to divorce and campaigned on behalf of children born out of wedlock. But in late 18th century France, her radical thinking proved too much for her contemporaries in ...