Wine barrel broker Françoise Gouges comes from a wine-making family in Burgundy but moved to Southern California in her early 20s. She’s never strayed far from her roots, though. As the representative ...

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She fought to give women the right to divorce. She campaigned for civil partnerships and against slavery. She was a passionate feminist who died for her ideals – and all this in the late 18th century.

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 ...