Olympe de Gouges, whose real name was Marie Gouze, was born in Montaubon in 1745, the daughter of a butcher and a washerwoman. She was married to a wealthy older man, and upon his death resolved never to marry again. She took the name Olympe de Gouges, came to Paris, and became a writer and dramatist, with a great passion for the revolutionary cause (and a pronounced outrage for slavery). Her determined feminist position and her efforts to organize women earned for her the most formidable opposition. Her Déclaration des Droits de la Femmes et de la Citoyenne, written in 1791, patterned closely after the Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen, did not amuse the revolutionaries. When, in 1793, she opposed the killing of the King and his family and spoke out against Robespierre and Marat, she became a target of the Terreur. In 1793 she was arrested and summarily guillotined.