Lucie Baud

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Lucie Baud (born as Lucie Marie Martin on 23. February 1870 in Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage ; died on 7. March 1913 in Tullins ) was a French Seidenweberin and trade unionist , being first in Vizille in Grenoble , then in Voiron active was. She campaigned for workers' and women's rights and founded the Syndicat des ouvriers et ouvrières en soierie du canton de Vizille union .

Live and act

Lucie Martin was born in 1870 into a poor farming family and at the age of 10 or 12 she became a silk weaver in a textile factory in Péage-de-Vizille , not far from her home country. On October 14, 1891, she married Pierre Jean Baud, a field warden from Vizille, who was 20 years her senior . Lucie and Pierre had three children: Alexandrine (1892–1959), Pierre Auguste (1897–1898) and Marguerite (1900–1922); Lucie Baud continued to work in the factory.

At the age of 32, she was widowed with two dependent children and had to leave her home. In November 1902, four months after her husband's death, she founded the Syndicat des ouvriers et ouvrières en soierie du canton de Vizille union , of which she became its secretary . This union tried to oppose the wage cut due to the mechanization of silk weaving.

In August 1904 she was the only woman who participated as a trade union delegate at the 6th National Congress of the Textile Industry in Reims. Her presence was welcomed, but she was given little speaking time.

In 1905 she called a strike at the Duplan factory in Vizille ; the strike extended to other factories and lasted 104 days: the silk weavers protested above all against the working conditions. The working days often lasted 13 or 14 hours. The workers were employed from the age of twelve. The traders, who were initially hostile to this movement, then supported the roughly 200 strikers, in particular by providing food. However, the strike movement failed and Lucie Baud was fired.

Without a permanent job, she was forced to leave the city of Vizille. However, she found a new job in Voiron, 30 km away. During the strike in 1906, she again played a leading role, including employing Italian women workers. A planned strike on May 1st turned out to be a major failure and was postponed. Discouraged, she attempted suicide in September 1906 , which disfigured her.

She moved again and settled in Tullins, where she died in 1913 at the age of 43.

Her trade union role would have been forgotten without the report she wrote, Les tisseuses de soie dans la région de Vizille , published in 1908 in Hubert Lagardelle's Le Mouvement socialiste .

reception

In 2017 her life began with the film Stand Up Comrades! filmed.

publication

literature

  • Gérard Mingat: Lucie Baud (1870–1913). Une ouvrière en soierie du pays vizillois. Mémoire. La revue des Amis de l'histoire du pays vizillois. February 2006.
  • Michelle Perrot: Mélancolie ouvrière , Nos héroïnes collection . Paris, Grasset 2012, 185

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Get up, comrades! In: programm.ARD.de. Retrieved December 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Baud, Lucie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, Lucie Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French silk weaver and trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Pierre-de-Mésage
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1913
Place of death Tullins