Gisèle Halimi was a Tunisian-French lawyer, politician, essayist and feminist activist.
Halimi in 2009
Feminism in France is the history of feminist thought and movements in France. Feminism in France can be roughly divided into three waves: First-wave feminism from the French Revolution through the Third Republic which was concerned chiefly with suffrage and civic rights for women. Significant contributions came from revolutionary movements of the French Revolution of 1848 and Paris Commune, culminating in 1944 when women gained the right to vote.
First page of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
Perspective view of the urban area of Fourier's phalanstery
Louise Michel
Jeanne Schmahl visiting the French Premier Aristide Briand in 1909