Adèle Esquiros, née Adèle-Julie Battanchon (12 December 1819 – 22 December 1886) was a French feminist journalist and writer.
Life
Adèle Esquiros was born in Paris, the daughter of Pierre-François Battanchon, a medical student who died in 1860, and Marie-Rose Rouvion, a pensioner who died in 1844 and married in 1822. Esquiros had four brothers - Pierre-François (d. 1864), a music teacher in
Libourne
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It is the wine-making capital of northern Gironde and lies near Saint-Émil ...
and then in
Bordeaux
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; Gabriel-Félix, a professor in Geneva; Edmond, painter in Paris; and Henri, merchant in Buenos Aires. Her sister Émilie (d. 1864) married a certain Dubosc, a landowner at
Le Puy. A teacher and poet, she met
Alphonse Esquiros Alphonse may refer to:
* Alphonse (given name)
* Alphonse (surname)
* Alphonse Atoll, one of two atolls in the Seychelles' Alphonse Group
See also
*Alphons
*Alfonso (disambiguation) Alfonso (and variants Alphonso, Afonso, Alphons, and Alphonse) is ...
, a Romantic writer converted to
socialism
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and republican ideas, with whom she married in Paris on 7 August 1847 and wrote several books: ''Histoire des amants célèbres'' and ''Regrets, souvenir d'enfance'', before being abandoned by her husband in 1850.
[Vincent Wright, Éric Anceau, Jean-Pierre Machelon, Sudhir Hazareesingh, ''Les Préfets de Gambetta'', Presses Paris Sorbonne, 2007, 482 pages, p. 195-198 ][Naomi Judith Andrews, ''Socialism's muse: gender in the intellectual landscape of French romantic socialism'', Lexington Books, 2006, 179 pages .]
During the
French Second Republic
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, Esquiros was an active member of the Women's Club founded in April 1848 and the Society for the Mutual Education of Women, founded in August 1848, with
Jeanne Deroin
Jeanne Deroin (31 December 1805 – 2 April 1894) was a French socialist feminist. She spent the latter half of her life in exile in London, where she continued her organising activities.
Early life
Born in Paris, Deroin became a seamstress. In ...
,
Eugénie Niboyet
Eugénie Mouchon-Niboyet (September 10, 1796 – January 6, 1883) was a French author, journalist and early feminist. She is best known for founding ''La Voix des Femmes'' (''The Women's Voice''), the first feminist daily newspaper in France.
She ...
and
Désirée Gay
Jeanne Desirée Véret Gay (4 April 1810 – c. 1891) was a French socialist feminist.
Life and career
Born in Paris, as Desirée Véret, she worked as a seamstress before in 1831 joining the followers of utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon. ...
. With Eugénie Niboyet and
Louise Colet
Louise Colet (15 August 1810 – 9 March 1876), born Louise Revoil de Servannes, was a French poet and writer.
Life and works
She was born at the hôtel d'Antoine ( fr) in Aix-en-Provence in France. In her twenties she married Hippolyt ...
, she was the founder of two feminist journals, ''
La Voix des Femmes ''La Voix des Femmes'' may refer to:
* La Voix des Femmes (France, 1848)
''La Voix des Femmes'' ( en, The Women's Voice) was a Parisian feminist newspaper, and later an organization dedicated to education and the advancement of women's rights. Th ...
'' (1848), then ''L'Opinion des Femmes''.
[Alphonse Lucas, ''Les clubs et les clubistes : histoire complétè critique et anecdotique des … '', E. Dentu, Paris, 185]
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In Michelet's ...
, ''L'Amour'' (1860).Société des gens de lettres
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, she died in Paris in 1886, blind, paralyzed and in abject poverty, surviving only thanks to a meagre treatment of the Société.
Works
* ''Le Fil de la Vierge'', Paris, V. Bouton, 1845, 70 p.
* ''Histoire des amants célèbres'' (with Alphonse Esquiros), Paris, bureau des publications nationales, 1847
* ''Regrets. - Souvenirs d'enfance. - Consolation. - Jalousie'', (with Alphonse Esquiros), Paris, imprimerie de Bénard, 1849, 2 p.
* ''Un vieux bas-bleu'', in ''Les Veillées littéraires illustrées'', volume II : ''Choix de romans, nouvelles, poésies, pièces de théâtre etc. etc. des meilleurs écrivains anciens et modernes'', Paris, J. Bry aîné, 1849
* ''Les Amours étranges'', Paris, A. Courcier, 1853, IV-349 p.
* ''Une vie à deux'', by Alphonse Esquiros. ''La Course aux maris'', ''la Nouvelle Cendrillon'', ''l'Amour d'une jeune fille'', ''l'Échoppe du père Mitou'', by Adèle Esquiros, Paris, Lécrivain et Toubon, 1859, 48 p.
* ''L'Amour'', Paris, 1860, 107 p.
* ''Histoire d'une sous-maîtresse'', Paris, E. Pick, 1861, 138 p.
* ''Les Marchands d'amour'', Paris, Pick, 1865, 224 p.
References
External links
The Feminist and the Socialist: Adele and Alphonse Esquiros
(Santa Clara University)
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1819 births
1886 deaths
Writers from Paris
19th-century French writers
19th-century French journalists
French feminist writers
19th-century French women writers