Pauline Roland

Desired Marie Pauline Roland , born with Cliff in 1805 and died with Lyon the December 15th 1852, is a Féministe and French Socialiste .

Pauline Roland received an instruction with the insistence of her mother, postmistress of Cliff. Initiated by one of its professors to the ideas saint-simoniennes of the founder of the Socialism French, it becomes an enthusiastic follower of its philosophy. According to its arrival with Paris in 1832, it starts to write for the first feminist newspapers and compiles a remarkable series of and , England and , French histories (1835) England (1838) Scotland Ireland (1844).

Close associated George Sand and to Pierre Leroux, it joint with its phalanstery fourierist with Boussac in 1847 where it works as teacher and writing for the Scout of Indre . She saw during twelve years in free union until in 1845 with Jean Aicard, while insisting that their two children, and a son whose father was Adolphe Guérolt, bears his name and is raised by her: “I will never agree to marry any man in a company where I could not make recognize my perfect equality with that to which I would link… ”. With died of Flora Tristan in 1844, it will also take care of his/her daughter Aline (who will be later the mother of Gauguin).

Of return to Paris in December, it engages actively in agitation and the feminists publication and Socialists, in particular with Jeanne Deroin and Désiré Gay. She collaborates in the new woman . In 1848, it takes the direction of the republican Club of the women. With Jeanne Deroin and Gustave Lefrançais, it founds, in 1849, the Association of the teachers, teachers and professors socialist who insists on the importance of the equality of the sexes in a program of education extending over the first eighteen years from the life and the women remaining in the work world. She then played a main role by convening the Union of associations of workers.

In October 1849, the delegates of more than 100 professions elect Pauline Roland at the central committee. This attempt at re-establishment of the co-operative movement in 1848 is removed by the government in April 1850 and Pauline Roland is with the number of the fifty stopped people the next month. With its passage in front of justice for Socialism, Feminism and “discharges”, it is the subject of violent attacks before being imprisoned seven months until July 1851. This at all does not prevent it from very actively implying in Parisian resistance to the Coup d'etat of December 1852 which leads to the Second Empire, which is worth to him to be condemned to ten years of deportation in Algérie. It owes its early release only with the intervention of George Sand and Pierre-Jean de Béranger. On the way of the return where it was going to find her children, the hard detention conditions which it had had to endure end up being right of its health and resulting in its death.

Translations

Milton, Treated divorce , 1643

References

Benoite Groult, Pauline Roland, or how freedom came to the women , Paris, Robert Laffont, 1991 ISBN 2221065212
Stephan Michaud, Flora Tristan, George Sand, Pauline Roland: women and the invention of a new morals , 1830-1848, Paris, Créaphis, 2002 ISBN 290715050250
Edith Thomas, Pauline Roland: Socialism and feminism at the 19th century , Paris, Marcel River, 1956.

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