Association pour le Droit des Femmes was a French women's rights organization, founded by

Maria Deraismes Maria Deraismes (17 August 1828 – 6 February 1894) was a French author, Freemason, and major pioneering force for women's rights. Biography Born in Paris, France, Paris, Maria Deraismes grew up in Pontoise in the city's northwest outsk ...

and

Léon Richer Léon-Pierre Richer (1824 – 25 June 1911) was a French free-thinker, freemason, journalist and feminist who worked closely with Maria Deraismes during the early years of the feminist movement in Paris. He edited '' Le Droit des femmes'' (''Women ...

in 1870.Charles Sowerwine: France since 1870: Culture, Society and the Making of the Republic, 2009 It was the first women's rights organization in France. Its purpose was to work for equal rights for women and men.

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While Richier maintained the view that

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should not be given the vote before they no longer favored the

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so much that women suffrage would result in a backlash of a progressive development of society, Maria Deraismes, who previously shared this view, took the stand that women should be given the vote in order to be more progressive than their present state allowed, rather than the other way around. Deraismes therefore left the Association pour le Droit des Femmes and founded the

Ligue Française pour le Droit des Femmes The Ligue Française pour le Droit des Femmes (LFDF, French League for Women's Rights) was a women's rights organisation active in France from 1882. The LFDF was founded by Maria Deraismes, one of the leading feminists in France of the time. Derai ...

in 1882, which resulted in Richiers association being replaced by LFDF as a leading women's movement in

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