Marguerite Durand
Marguerite Durand (born January 24, 1864 in Paris ; † March 16, 1936 there ) was a French actress , journalist and leading suffragette .
Life
Born into a middle class family, Marguerite Durand was sent to study at a Roman Catholic convent. After completing her studies, she enrolled at the Paris Conservatory before joining the Comédie-Française .
In 1888 she gave up her career at the theater in favor of a marriage to the aspiring young lawyer Georges Laguerre . As a friend and supporter of the politically ambitious Army General Georges Boulanger , her husband introduced her to the world of radical politics and involved her by writing pamphlets for the “Boulangist” movement. The marriage was short lived. The couple separated in 1891; Durand took a job as the author of " Le Figaro ", one of the leading newspapers of the time. In 1896 she was sent off by her employer to write a mocking article about the Congrès Féministe International (International Feminist Congress). She returned from this meeting very changed, so changed that the next year, on December 9, 1897, she founded a feminist daily, “ La Fronde ”, which picked up where Hubertine Auclert's “ La Citoyenne ” (The Citizen) left off. Together with journalist colleague Georges Harnoit, she founded the Cimetière des chiens dog cemetery on May 2, 1899 in Asnières-sur-Seine , at that time the first dog cemetery in the world.
The Durand newspaper was run exclusively by women, campaigning for women's rights such as the admission of women to lawyers and attending the École des Beaux-Arts . The editorials in this newspaper also demanded that women be called to military service and participate in parliamentary debates. This later included Durand's attempt in 1910 to organize female candidates for the election. At the 1900 World's Fair , she organized the Congress for Women's Rights. She set up a summer residence for women journalists in Pierrefonds in the Picardy region and has now directed her activities towards the rights of working women by helping to set up several unions .
Marguerite Durand, completely immersed in her passion for equality, was also an attractive, stylish and elegant woman who was famous for walking the streets of Paris with her tame lion named "Tiger". Leading the enforcement of a pet cemetery in Asnières-sur-Seine, where her lion was ultimately buried, her feminist profile achieved an unpredictably high level of respect and esteem in France and eventually Europe. During all of this she collected an enormous number of newspapers which she bequeathed to the government in 1931. The following year, the Marguerite Durand Library ( Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand ) opened in Paris and has remained one of the world's best sources for research into feminism and the history of women to this day.
literature
- Jean Rabaut: Marguerite Durand (1864-1936). "La Fronde" féministe, ou, "Le Temps" en jupons . L'Harmattan, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-7384-4338-9 .
- Mary Louise Roberts: Disruptive Acts. The New Woman in Fin-de-Siècle France . The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2002, ISBN 0-226-72124-8 .
- Monique R. Siegel: Women's careers between tradition and innovation . CE Poeschel, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-7910-0505-7 .
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| SURNAME | Durand, Marguerite |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Durand, Marguerite Julia Charlotte (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actress, journalist and suffragette |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1936 |
| Place of death | Paris |