Julie Gayet embodies one of the pioneers of feminism in a TV movie broadcast on France 2.
Julie Gayet embodies a personality considered as one of the pioneers of feminism in the telefilm Olympe, a woman in the revolution broadcast on Monday March 3, 2025 on France 2. Directed by Mathieu Busson and Julie Gayet (who also plays the first role), this fiction is focused on the figure ofOlympe de Gougeswoman of letters, playwright, who wrote in 1791 the Declaration of women’s and citizen rights and was one of the first to publicly oppose slavery in France.
According to Ouest-Francefreedoms were taken at the end, of the film compared to the real life of the woman of letters. “But these are her words,” adds the actress and co-director. The admirers of the TV movie will be able to dig this parallel with the release of the scenario Commented by historians at Flammarion, “because you can’t put everything in an hour and a half film”. “When we say that we did it for public service and for television, it is also to be an educational tool for history teachers, in colleges and high schools,” Detailed Julie Gayet to TV 7 days.
Born in Montauban on May 7, 1743, Olympe de Gouges distinguished herself as a woman of letters committed and modern in her writings, her texts approaching the question of divorce and marriage, unemployment, social security. Disappointed that equality of rights is not granted to women during the Revolution, she writes the Declaration of women’s and citizen rights in return.
If it was favorable to the French Revolution, Olympe de Gouges joined forces with moderate Girondins, and marked its disagreement as to the execution of Louis XVI. She mainly opposed Maximilien Robespierre and to the movement of radical mountain, and to terror. His writings and criticisms led to his arrest for betrayal. She died guillotined in Paris on November 3, 1793, after opposing the regime established by Robespierre during the French Revolution.
A faithful TV movie?
But is the film faithful to the life of Olympe de Gouges? According to Ouest-Francefreedoms were taken at the end, of the film compared to the real life of the woman of letters. “But these are her words,” adds the actress and co-director. The admirers of the TV movie will be able to dig this parallel with the release of the scenario Commented by historians at Flammarion, “because you can’t put everything in an hour and a half film”. “When we say that we did it for public service and for television, it is also to be an educational tool for history teachers, in colleges and high schools,” Detailed Julie Gayet to TV 7 days.
Synopsis – Paris, July 1793. Four years after the Bastille and the start of the Revolution. The situation is explosive and terror is in full swing. In the midst of this world of violence and changes, only one constant almost immutable: women have the right to anything. Olympe de Gouges rises against this injustice, in particular by publishing the declaration of the rights of women and citizens. Woman of letters and fights, she opposes Robespierre head -on. Arrested by state police, Olympe is transferred to a prison in which she awaits her trial. In the midst of the other convicted of all conditions, Olympe will continue to fight …