Olympe, une femme dans la Révolution

Olympe de Gouges enters the male-dominated political arena armed with a quill instead of a sword. Paris in the 1790s seethes with revolutionary ideals, yet women's rights remain excluded from history. The writer and philosopher publishes her «Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen», challenging Robespierre and the entire system. Her salons become battlegrounds of ideas where freedom, equality, and the price of progress are debated. This 2025 historical TV movie dramatizes how one woman attempted to alter the course of events as the guillotine's blade was being sharpened. Based on true events, it explores forgotten chapters of the French Revolution through the lens of feminist struggle.