Léon Richer
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Léon-Pierre Richer was a French free-thinker, freemason, journalist and feminist who worked closely with Maria Deraismes during the early years of the feminist movement in Paris. He edited Le Droit de
Léon Richer by André Gill in Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui
Richer in later years
Maria Deraismes
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Maria Deraismes was a French author, feminist orator, and Freemason. She was the first woman initiated into Freemasonry in France and co-founded Le Droit Humain, the first mixed-gender Masonic order.
Léon Richer
…Léon-Pierre Richer (19 March 1824 – 25 June 1911) was a French free-thinker, freemason, journalist and feminist who worked closely with Maria Deraismes during the early years of the feminist movement in Paris. He edited Le Droit des femmes (Women's Rights), a feminist journal that appeared from 1869…
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Caricature of Maria Deraismes
The bronze statue (1898) of Deraismes by Louis-Ernest Barrias. It was melted down in 1942 on German orders. It was recast in 1983 from the surviving plaster cast and re-erected.