Paris in 1793 was dominated by the bloody Reign of Terror. A mandate to place “terror on the order of the day” led to a ...

Gilbert Theater, the theater with a pulse, is living up to its reputation and community roots with its latest production, The Revolutionists by Laura Gunderson. A fictional tale set in the very real ...

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 ...

Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the ...

Anne Hultzsch, your research topic is rather unknown. How did you come up with it? The idea came partly from my teaching experience and a certain frustration with the canon of architectural literature ...

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the role of women in shaping discourses of gender equality during the French Revolution (1789-1794), situating their activism within the intellectual framework of the ...

Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...

Olympe de Gouges pursued her literary career with new publications: plays, novels and essays. She confirmed her commitment to denouncing slavery by publishing her Réflexions sur les hommes nègres ...

It’s the French Revolution and four prominent women — playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, Haitian spy Marianne Angelle and Queen Marie Antoinette — find themselves holed up ...

“It’s really funny to see Olympe De Gouge freak out and be a drama queen, and Marie Antoinette be the dumb blonde airhead pretty girl,” Cox, a freshman at Brown College, said. While the set itself was ...

Theatre UAB will present “The Revolutionists,” an irreverent comedy about four beautiful, badass women who lose their heads in 1790s Paris, from Feb. 26-March 2. This girl-powered play’s central ...