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French Enlightenment Women Madame Geoffrin used her home for many of the salon meetings in France. She not only hosted the meetings, but often directed the conversations and settled arguments. Olympe de Gouges published the female version of the document of the French Revolution. She called it the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen. She called for equality in all things. When she spoke out against the bloodshed of the French Revolution, they sent her to the guillotine. Think/ Pair/Share Who were the two famous French women of the Enlightenment? Abigail Adams Wife to