Why did Olympe de Gouges change her name?
To honor her mother
To separate herself from her husband
To embrace a literary pseudonym
To falsify her identity
Answer
Olympe de Gouges changed her name to separate herself from her husband, which was required for women to divorce at the time. She adopted the pseudonym "Olympe de Gouges" as a reference to the Greek goddess of freedom, and she used this name for all of her writings and political activities.
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