Julie Siegfried

Julie Siegfried (Luneray (Seine-Maritime), February 13rd 1848 - Paris, May 28th 1922) was born in a family from the deeply republican Protestant middle-class which constitutes one of the poles of the female reforming medium. His/her father is Pasteur. She is the mother of the academician André Siegfried.

She first of all creates the works turned towards the education of the young girls to the Havre, city whose her husband, Jules Siegfried, is mayor: a school of training and a higher elementary school in 1880, and one of the very first colleges of girl in 1885. After the election of this one like deputy of the Seine-Lower , it settles in Paris where it engages actively in a multitude of works and female associations (Conferences of Versailles, Journal of the Woman, French Union for the vote of the women, etc), and in particular in the National council of the French women (CNFF) which it chairs (1912 - 1922) following the first president Sarah Monod (1901 - 1912).

The CNFF is the most important feminist organization of the beginning of the century (21 000 members in 1901, almost 100 000 in 1914). The purpose of it is to promote the assistance, hygiene, the education and the work of the women, but seeks also obtaining the right to vote. The project of female vote is adopted with the National Assembly, thanks to the support of her appointed husband, but fails the Sénat.

Sources

Bulletin of connection of the learned societies n° March 9th, th and th 2004
Rise Steven C., Waelti-Walters Jennifer, Feminisms off the Beautiful Time: In Historical and Literary Anthology , University off Nebraska Near, 1994
Sabatier Elisa, Mrs Jules Siegfried 1848-1922 , Deprived, 1924

External bonds

Naming of a street Siegfried in Le Havre
http://www.cths.fr

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