Avril de Sainte-Croix
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Ghénia Avril de Sainte-Croix was a French author, journalist, feminist and pacifist. For many years she led the French branch of the International Abolitionist Federation, which sought to abolish stat
Autochrome portrait by Georges Chevalier, 1923
Sainte-Croix as President of the National Council of French Women
Etats généraux du féminisme 1929. Sainte-Croix is in the front row, center, looking towards the right.
Marguerite Pichon-Landry
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Marguerite Pichon-Landry was a French feminist who was president of the National Council of French Women from 1932 to 1952.
Avril de Sainte-Croix
…Strasbourg in October 1919. In 1922 she succeeded Julie Siegfried as president of the CNFF, holding this position until 1932 when she was replaced by Marguerite Pichon-Landry. Sainte-Croix campaigned in 1927 to have women admitted to the police force. She presided over the CNFF's États-Généraux du Féminisme congresses in…
Marguerite Pichon-Landry in 1913
Autochrome portrait by Auguste Léon, 1927