Olympe de Gouges advocated for the rights of women during the Revolution. She was politically very much involved, and at the end because of her beliefs she was beheaded.
Mary Astell is not correct answer as she was English feminist that died more than fifty years before the Revolution started.
The same thing goes with Rousseau, who was a famous French philosopher who died ten years before the Revolution.
Maria Merian also lived before the French Revolution. She was a famous Swiss scientist.
The two years prior to World War I in the region of the Balkans saw the rising of Serbian nationalistic Groups. Later came the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in the Balkan City of Sarajevo, main cause of the war.
The argument that Carnegie makes about the uses to to which the great fortunes of industrialists should be devoted is that he argued that the wealthy must live modestly and make use of their fortunes for the elevation of all civilization.
