Talk:Olympe de Gouges
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I translated the Jules Michelet quote, presumably originally in French, (along with most of the rest of this article) from the German-language article. I cannot find the original French of the quote or a previously published English translation, and my German is not so great. If anyone can find the French original or a more reliable translation, that would be nice. Jmabel 09:20, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Email from Françoise Zylberberg
I just received the following email from Françoise Zylberberg; I don't really have a lot of time to work on this article right now, but I've put it here for anyone who may wish to follow up. I've emaile her and suggested that she open an account and edit this article directly, but I'm putting the information here for anyone else who might want to follow up. In any case, it should make it clear that we have permission to quote from the relevant site and use the pictures. (The attachments were PDFs, hence not very useful for extracting an image; I've saved them and can forward them on request if someone wants them.) -- Jmabel | Talk 17:58, May 15, 2005 (UTC)
- Bonjour.
- Unless I am wrong, you are the author of a web article about Marie-Olympe de Gouges which may need to be updated :
- most recent bio (Dec 2003), the most complete too, by Olivier BLANC is http://www.quercy.net/lib/detail.php?article=188. Please also see the two attachments of present e-mail for an English version of said book back-cover,
- Attached prospectus reproduces the book front-cover and provide what is, according to Olivier Blanc, the best portrait of MOdG (what you show is not MOdG but a decorative item selected ramdomly by another book designer),
- http://www.quercy.net/hommes/ogenglish.html is an English article you may wish to quote, and use. Initially written in French before VIENET met Olivier BLANC and invited him to update its 1981 biography of MOdG, in its English version it incorporates some fresh details. So the later English version by Donald NICHOLSON-SMITH is more accurate than the French one. DNS is now completing a full translation of MOdG bio by Olivier Blanc.
- MOdG is an interesting case of a female writer (legitimately) celebrated by feminists for her <Declaration of women’s rights>, by democrats for her other anticipations (jury, new marriage contract, support of destitute people, against slavery, etc.) but basically nobody among the aforesaid feminists and/or democrats wants to explain which holy cows of the French Revolution cut her head, while she was probably pregnant, after a 15 min trial without lawyer. You may help.
- Best regards,
- Francoise Zylberberg.