What did Olympe de Gouges criticise?

Correct answer: Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

The direct answer is A, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Olympe de Gouges argued that the Revolution’s language of universal rights did not truly include women. In 1791 she wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen as a challenge to the male-centred declaration. Option A is correct because she criticised the exclusion of women from the revolutionary definition of citizenship and equality. Option B, La Marseillaise, was a revolutionary song and was not the document she criticised in this context. Option C, the Tuileries Palace, was a royal residence and not a declaration of rights. Option D, a feudal field, is not a political rights document at all. Her argument was not that women should receive special privileges; she demanded that the stated principles of liberty and equality apply to women as well. Memory cue: Olympe de Gouges means women’s rights and a challenge to a male-centred rights declaration.