GALLERY
Simone de Beauvoir
1908-1986
Theorist of feminism, creator of the book The Second Sex, She participated in the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s.
Emmeline Pankhurst
1858-1928
A great British feminist who organized the British suffragette movement, she helped women in Britain to obtain the right to vote.
Marie Olympe de Gouges
1748-1793
The first major feminist activist to draft the Declaration of Women’s and Citizens' Rights.
Simone Segouin
1925 ( 96 years old )
She joined the movement at the age of 18 and has fought tirelessly since she was very young.
Rebecca Amsellem
1988( 33 years old )
A great feminist who created the Les Glorieuses newsletter. She also fights for women’s equal pay.
Lucie Aubrac
1912 -2007
Great resistant who organizes the escape of several resistant. She fights for gender equality, women’s right to vote and many more.
Marie Madelaine Fourcade
1909-1989
Resistant leader of one of the biggest networks of the resistant, she acted for the British.
Germaine Tillion
1907 -2008
Resistant to the Second World War and second French to become Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.