![]() ![]() Gouze’s journey coincided with the return to Montauban of Anne-Olympe’s lover, Jean-Jacques. ![]() Gouze was sent travelling in 1747, and a year later, on the day of his return, his daughter, Marie, was born. Anne-Olympe married Pierre Gouze, a butcher, in 1737. ![]() It is thought that Anne-Olympe died in sickness and poverty, with only her youngest daughter, Gouges, to support her.Īnne-Olympe and Jean-Jacques grew up together and developed a close relationship so that Jean-Jacques had to be sent away by his family, who wished to avoid a marriage with a respectable but non-aristocratic family. The latter inherited a high position in the church, and when Jean-Jacques died, he failed to act on a verbal promise to support Anne-Olympe financially. When Anne-Olympe was born, the Le Franc Pompignans asked Anne Marty to nurse their younger son, Jean-Georges. Jacques Mouisset was Jean-Jacques’s tutor. Jean-Jacques Le Franc de Pompignan was the son of a local high magistrate, heir to the castle of Pompignan, and godfather to Anne-Olympe. Official father: Pierre Gouze (1716–1750)Īnne-Olympe was the daughter of Anne Marty, of whom nothing is known, and a wealthy and respected solicitor and textile merchant, Jacques Mouisset. Marie Gouze (birth), Veuve Aubry (married), Olympe de Gouges, Marie-Olympe de Gouges (assumed).īorn in Montauban, Huguenot city in the South West of France.īirth father: Jean-Jacques Le Franc de Pompignan (1709–1784) ![]()
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