Maria Vérone

Maria Vérone (1874–1938) was a French feminist and suffragist. A free-thinker,[2] she was the president of the Ligue Française pour le Droit des Femmes (French League for Women's Rights) or LFDF, from 1919 to 1938.[3]

Maria Vérone
Maria Verone
Born(1874-06-20)20 June 1874
Paris, France
Died4 May 1938(1938-05-04) (aged 63)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Alma materFaculty of Law (Sorbonne)[1]
OccupationJournalist, Attorney, Suffragist

Life

Vérone was born on June 20, 1874 in Paris, France.[1] She served as secretary at the International Congress of Freethinkers when she was 15 years old. In 1903 she became the first woman to plead before French appeals court.[4] She supported herself as a teacher, but was dismissed for her political opinions and unionizing activities.[5][1]

Vérone became a reporter for the French feminist newspaper La Fronde, which was published by Marguerite Durand.[5] 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.[1]

Vérone served as president of Ligue Française pour le Droit des Femmes for 20 years.[3][4]

Vérone died on May 24, 1938 in Paris.[1]

See also

Notes
  1. "Vérone, Maria (1874–1938)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  2. Michèle RIOT-SARCEY (21 April 2016). Histoire du féminisme. La Découverte. p. 54. ISBN 978-2-7071-8839-7.
  3. Sara L. Kimble; Marion Röwekamp (1 July 2016). The rise of "modern Portias. "New Perspectives on European Women’s Legal History. Routledge. p. 139. ISBN 978-1-317-57716-4.
  4. "Maria Verone". Women In Peace. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  5. Kimble, Sara L. (2011). "Popular Legal Journalism in the Writings of Maria Vérone". Proceedings of the Western Society for French History. Retrieved 3 August 2019.

Sources

Bibliography
  • Christine Bard. Les filles de Marianne : histoire des féminismes 1914-1940. Paris : Fayard, 1995. ISBN 2213593906
  • 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. ISBN 9782213631615

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