![]() ![]() However, it was not until the Revolution that this play was actually performed. In 1783 (or 1784), she wrote her first play, Zamore et Mirza(Zamore and Mirza), depicting the escape of two fugitive slaves “condemned to death for having killed their tyrannical master” (Jonathan Israel). Moving to Paris, Marie Gouze made use of a pseudonym, Olympe de Gouges, with which she integrated Parisian literary salons. Widowed before 1772, she began an affair with a man familiar with colonial spheres: the director of the Financial Office of the Navy and Colonies, Jacques Biétrix de Rozières. It is to this sad event that the writer attributes her interest in the “fate” of black people and her awareness of the prejudices targeting them. ![]() As a child, she is believed to have witnessed the horrific sight of a black woman sold for auction in her hometown. Marie Gouze was born in 1748 in Montauban in the south of France. ![]()
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