Alice La Mazière (

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Kühn; 1880-1962) was a French journalist, socialist and feminist activist.

Career as a journalist

Alice La Mazière started her career during

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

: she published an article on women working to sort objects coming from the war front in la '' Revue de Paris''. She was a journalist for the newspaper ''La Fronde'', the first newspaper in the world to be entirely conceived and supervised by women.

Activism

Alice La Mazière was a member of the

French Union for Women's Suffrage The French Union for Women's Suffrage (UFSF: ) was a French feminist organization formed in 1909 that fought for the right of women to vote, which was eventually granted in 1945. The Union took a moderate approach, advocating staged introduction o ...

and active within the French Section of the Worker's International (SFIO). She was a candidate to municipal elections in Paris in 1919 although women did not yet have the right to vote or to be elected in France at that time. Several Communist women did the same in the 1925 municipal elections. She also contributed to the creation of the

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-Club of Paris, which was established by

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, and she was its president until 1926.

Private life

Alice La Mazière was married to Pierre La Mazière, a journalist and writer. They are buried together in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

Books

As listed on Data.bnf.fr: * With Suzanne Grinberg, ''Carrières féminines, nouvelles écoles, nouveaux métiers, nouvelles professions'', Brochures Larousse, Paris : Larousse, 1917. * ''En Tchécoslovaquie hier et aujourd'hui'', Paris : Fasquelle, 1938. * ''Le Maroc secret'', Paris: éditions Baudinière, 1932. * ''Neuvième congrès de l'Alliance internationale pour le suffrage des femmes'' (Rome, 12-19 mai 1923), Paris, Union française pour le suffrage des femmes, (s. d.). * ''Nouvelle Espagne,'' Paris: éditions Baudinière, 1933. * ''Sauvons les bébés'', Niort : impr. de A. Chiron, 1920, 10p.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:La Maziere, Alice 1880 births 1962 deaths French socialists French feminists French socialist feminists 20th-century French journalists 20th-century French women