Maria Vérone (1874–1938) was a French

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

and

suffragist Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to v ...

. A free-thinker, she was the president of 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 ...

'' (French League for Women's Rights) or LFDF, from 1919 to 1938.

Life

Vérone was born on June 20, 1874 in Paris, France. She served as secretary at the International Congress of

Freethinkers Freethought (sometimes spelled free thought) is an epistemological viewpoint which holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, and that beliefs should instead be reached by other methods ...

when she was 15 years old. In 1903 she became the first woman to plead before French appeals court. She supported herself as a teacher, but was dismissed for her political opinions and unionizing activities. Vérone became a reporter for the French feminist newspaper

La Fronde The Fronde () was a series of civil wars in France between 1648 and 1653, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659), Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635. King Louis XIV confronted the combined opposition of the pr ...

, which was published by

Marguerite Durand Marguerite Durand (24 January 1864 – 16 March 1936) was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette. She founded her own newspaper, and ran for election. She is also known for having a pet lion. For her contributions to t ...

. Her journalism on legal and judicial matters led to her interest in becoming a lawyer. In 1907 Vérone, a single mother of two, was admitted to the French bar. Vérone served as president of

for 20 years. Vérone died on May 24, 1938 in Paris.

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* Christine Bard. ''Les filles de Marianne : histoire des féminismes 1914-1940.'' Paris : Fayard, 1995. * Laurence Klejman and Florence Rochefort. « Vérone (Maria), 1874-1938 », ''Dictionnaire des intellectuals français,'' Jacques Juillard and Michel Winock, ed. Paris : Seuil, 1996. * Raymond Hesse et Lionel Nastorg, ''Leur manière...: plaidoiries à la façon de... Raymond Poincaré, Maria Vérone, etc.'', B. Grasset, Paris, 1925, 212 p. * Sara L. Kimble, « No Right to Judge : Feminism and the Judiciary in Third Republic France. » ''French Historical Studies'' 31, no. 4 (2008): 609–641. https://www.academia.edu/307609 https://depaul.academia.edu/SaraKimble * Sara L. Kimble, « Popular Legal Journalism in the Writings of Maria Vérone. » PWSFH Volume 39, 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.0642292.0039.021 * Juliette Rennes, ''Le mérite et la nature : une controverse républicaine, l'accès des femmes aux professions de prestige, 1880-1940'', Fayard, 2007, 594 p.

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Maria Vérone : « Pourquoi les femmes veulent voter »
(conférence du 24 avril 1914, avec une courte biographie)

(délibération du Conseil Municipal du 18ème arrondissement de Paris en janvier 2010) 1874 births 1938 deaths French suffragists French feminists Socialist feminists 20th-century French women {{France-academic-bio-stub

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