Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Medusa, French political activist, Olympe de Gouge and Cara Delevingne will now forever be connected as both a beautiful work of ...

The French social activist, feminist and playwright who fell out of favour with fellow revolutionaries and was executed at the guillotine. Show more She fought to give women the right to divorce and ...

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 ...