Caroline Rémy de Guebhard

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Caroline Rémy (Séverine), portrait by Louis Welden Hawkins from 1895

Caroline Rémy de Guebhard , also known as Séverine or Madame Séverine (born April 27, 1855 in Paris , † April 24, 1929 in Pierrefonds ) was a French socialist , journalist and feminist .

Life

Caroline Rémy, painting by Renoir

Around 1880, Caroline Rémy began working on Jules Vallès ' socialist publication "Cri du Peuple" under the pseudonym "Séverine". Vallès eventually gave her control of the newspaper because of his poor health. As her views became more and more controversial, she befriended her journalistic and feminist colleague Marguerite Durand , but after an argument with the Marxist Jules Guesde , she left the newspaper in 1888. She continued to write articles calling for emancipation and denouncing social injustices of all kinds, including the Dreyfus affair . In 1897 she started working for Durand's feminist daily La Fronde.

Being a staunch left, Rémy supported some anarchist demands, including defending Germaine Berton, and participated in the 1927 attempt to save Sacco and Vanzetti . She supported the Russian Revolution of 1917 and in 1921 she joined the Communist Party , but ended her membership a few years later because she wanted to devote more time to the Alliance for Human Rights. A founding member of the " Ligue Internationale Contre le Racisme et l'Antisémitisme " (International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism), Bernard Lecache , wrote her biography. Séverine was not only in political circles, but also in artistic circles. Her portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1885 is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC .

Caroline Rémy died in 1929 in the residence for female journalists in Pierrefonds in the Oise department in Picardy . Some of her work can be found in the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in Paris.

Works (selection)

  • L'Insurgé ( Eng . The revolt ; also The rebel or story of an insurgent ). 3rd part of the novel trilogy Jacques Vingtras , partly autobiographical, by Jules Vallès. Completed by Caroline Rémy. Paris 1886
personal data
SURNAME Rémy de Guebhard, Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Severine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French socialist, journalist and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1929
Place of death Pierrefonds