It is with a preview film that Uxello resumes its film conferences as part of Unipop, Popular History University, Monday January 13, on the theme “Olympe, a woman in the Revolution”.
Olympe is Olympe de Gouges, her birth name Marie Gouze, born May 7, 1748 in Montauban and died guillotined on November 3, 1793 in Paris, woman of letters, playwright and French politician. Editor in 1791 of the Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens, she left numerous writings and pamphlets in favor of the civil and political rights of women and the abolition of black slavery. She is considered one of the French pioneers of feminism, and is often taken as an emblem by movements for women's liberation.
At 6:30 p.m., preview screening of the film “Olympe, une femme dans la Révolution” directed by Julie Gayet and Mathieu Busson, with Julie Gayet, Dimitri Storoge, Pauline Serieys.
Synopsis: Paris, July 1793. Four years after the storming of the Bastille and the start of the Revolution. The situation is explosive and the Terror is in full swing. In the midst of this world of violence and change, there is only one almost immutable constant: women have the right to nothing. One of the very few to dare to speak out against this injustice is Olympe de Gouges.
At 8 p.m., following the screening, meeting broadcast live from the Jean-Eustache cinema in Pessac, with the director and actress Julie Gayet, the director Mathieu Busson and the historian Elise Pavy-Guilbert, lecturer at the university Bordeaux-Montaigne and member of the University Institute of France.
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