Cécile Brunschvicg | |
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![]() Brunschvicg
c. 1926 | |
Undersecretary of State for national education of France | |
In office 5 June 1936 – 21 June 1937 | |
President | Albert Lebrun |
Prime Minister | Léon Blum |
Preceded by |
Henri Guernut indirectly |
Succeeded by | Léo Lagrange |
Personal details | |
Born | Cécile Kahn 19 July 1877 Enghien-les-Bains, France |
Died | 5 October 1946 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | (aged 69)
Political party | PRS |
Spouse | Léon Brunschvicg |
Cécile Brunschvicg (French: [sesil bʁœ̃svik]), born Cécile Kahn (19 July 1877 in Enghien-les-Bains – 5 October 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine), was a French feminist politician. From the 1920s until her death she was regarded as "the grande dame of the feminist movement" in France. [1]
She was born into a Jewish middle-class, republican family. Her familial environment was not inclined to let women study, especially not when they were over 17. Already a "liberated" woman (for the time), it was her meeting, and subsequent marriage to, Léon Brunschvicg, a feminist philosopher and member of the Ligue des droits de l'homme, that spurred her to feminist activism; she became vice-president of the League of Electors for women's suffrage.
The French Union for Women's Suffrage (UFSF: Union française pour le suffrage des femmes) was founded by a group of feminists who had attended a national congress of French feminists in Paris in 1908, led by Jeanne Schmahl and Jane Misme. [2] The UFSF provided a less militant and more widely acceptable alternative to the Suffrage des femmes of Hubertine Auclert (1848–1914). The sole objective was to obtain women's suffrage through legal approaches. [2] The founding meeting of 300 women was held in February 1909. Cécile Brunschvicg was made secretary-general. [2] Schmahl was the first president. [3] Eliska Vincent accepted the position of honorary vice-president. [4] The UFSF was formally recognized by the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWFA) congress in London in April 1909 as representing the French suffrage movement. [2] In 1926, she became the editor of La Française.
Cécile Brunschvicg was named Undersecretary of State for national education in the first Léon Blum government.
Cécile Brunschvicg | |
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![]() Brunschvicg
c. 1926 | |
Undersecretary of State for national education of France | |
In office 5 June 1936 – 21 June 1937 | |
President | Albert Lebrun |
Prime Minister | Léon Blum |
Preceded by |
Henri Guernut indirectly |
Succeeded by | Léo Lagrange |
Personal details | |
Born | Cécile Kahn 19 July 1877 Enghien-les-Bains, France |
Died | 5 October 1946 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | (aged 69)
Political party | PRS |
Spouse | Léon Brunschvicg |
Cécile Brunschvicg (French: [sesil bʁœ̃svik]), born Cécile Kahn (19 July 1877 in Enghien-les-Bains – 5 October 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine), was a French feminist politician. From the 1920s until her death she was regarded as "the grande dame of the feminist movement" in France. [1]
She was born into a Jewish middle-class, republican family. Her familial environment was not inclined to let women study, especially not when they were over 17. Already a "liberated" woman (for the time), it was her meeting, and subsequent marriage to, Léon Brunschvicg, a feminist philosopher and member of the Ligue des droits de l'homme, that spurred her to feminist activism; she became vice-president of the League of Electors for women's suffrage.
The French Union for Women's Suffrage (UFSF: Union française pour le suffrage des femmes) was founded by a group of feminists who had attended a national congress of French feminists in Paris in 1908, led by Jeanne Schmahl and Jane Misme. [2] The UFSF provided a less militant and more widely acceptable alternative to the Suffrage des femmes of Hubertine Auclert (1848–1914). The sole objective was to obtain women's suffrage through legal approaches. [2] The founding meeting of 300 women was held in February 1909. Cécile Brunschvicg was made secretary-general. [2] Schmahl was the first president. [3] Eliska Vincent accepted the position of honorary vice-president. [4] The UFSF was formally recognized by the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWFA) congress in London in April 1909 as representing the French suffrage movement. [2] In 1926, she became the editor of La Française.
Cécile Brunschvicg was named Undersecretary of State for national education in the first Léon Blum government.