Hubertine Auclert

Hubertine Auclert , born the April 10th 1848 and dead the August 4th 1914, was militant a French Féministe in favor of the right of Vote of the women.

Born in a family from middle-class, her mother puts it at the Couvent at died of her father whereas it was thirteen years old. She thought of becoming nun, but left the convent at the 16 years age. Separated from her mother, she lived a time with her uncle before having to turn over to the convent a few years later. Having then definitively left the convent in 1869, it goes up to Paris at one time when the fall of Napoleon III and the advent of the Third Republic opens the way with activism on behalf of the women who start to require changes in the code Napoleon in favor of education, economic independence for the women and the divorce.

Inspired by the activities of Maria Deraismes and Leon Richer, Hubertine Auclert engaged in the feminist movement . She became, thereafter, the secretary of Richer. Its life passed to the convent had made of it, like many republican feminists of the time, a militant anticlerical. Whereas the French feminist movement was mainly directed towards legal changes, Auclert further pushed, by requiring for the women the right to be presented to the elections while asserting that the unjust laws would never have passed if the sights of the législatrices had been taken into account. In 1876, it founded the company the women's right which supported the right to vote for the women and, in 1883, this company officially changed name into the vote of the women .

In 1878, the international Congrès on the women's rights held with Paris does not have, with the contrariety of Hubertine Auclert, supported the vote of the women. Solved, it launched, starting from 1880, a revolt of the taxpayers by defending the idea that, for lack of legal representation, the women should not be taxable. One of its legal advisers was the lawyer Antonin Lévrier which she married thereafter. The February 13rd 1881, it launched the Citizen , a Journal which, pleading with force for the female release, received the support of the elite of the feminist movement like Severine (Caroline Rémy) and of fashionable the Marie Bashkirtseff which wrote several articles there. The French government having ended up passing a law on the divorce in 1884, Auclert denounced it because of its obvious polarization against the women who still did not allow them to keep their wages. Auclert proposed the radical idea of a marriage contract between united with the separation of goods.

In 1888, it went to be established with her husband in Algérie where they were to remain four years until his return to Paris after his death. Incompetent to financially support the Citizen , the newspaper closed but Auclert continued its activism. In 1900, it saw the creation of the National council of the Frenchwomen , an organization for the French feminist groups which was to support the vote of the women soon.

In 1908, the married Frenchwomen finally received the control of their own wages but, at age the 60 years, Auclert continued to push in favor of the complete equality. This year, it symbolically broke a ballot box in Paris at the time of the municipal elections and, in 1910, it defied, in.liaison.with Marguerite Durand, the authorities while being presented in the form of a candidate to the legislative elections.

Regarded as a central figure in the history of the movement of the rights of the Frenchwomen, Hubertine Auclert continued its activism until its death to the 65 years age. It is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise in Paris. The sculpture on its tomb commemorates the " Vote of the Women .