Early Modernist architects designed school buildings to create healthy environments for young students by offering easy physical and visual access to the outdoors, aided by large glazed expanses that ...

Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...

A group of historians, writers and elected officials demand the transfer of the remains to the Paris Pantheon of Olympe de Gouges, a pioneer in the fight for the abolition of slavery and women's ...

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 ...

She supported the abolition of slavery, fought for equality between men and women, campaigned for the right of free union and divorce, and defended democracy ...

Text description provided by the architects. The school group consists of fourteen classes, located on the edge of fields north of the village of Gidy, not far from Orleans. It meets the need to ...

De Gouges and the noted Girondin Madame Roland, who followed her under the blade five days later, were betrayed victims of the unfinished business of a general cleaning up of moderates and dissidents ...

4.7 x 1 cm. (1.9 x 0.4 in.) ...

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 ...