Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and politician. He was a liberal thinker, and today is seen as being among the thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment. In 1790, after the French Revolutiion,  and after the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. As it says i the declaration, they only applied to men. Condorcet  said these rights should also be given to women. He published an essay,  Sur l’admission des femmes au droit de cité (On the admission of women on rights of the citizen). In it, he postulated that women should get the right to vote in elections. He also said that black people should have the same rights as white people, that slavery should be abolished and there should be free trade.