29. Marguerite Durand
Marguerite Durand's heyday was undoubtedly the Belle Epoque, but her most durable legacy is undeniably her archives and papers, including newspapers, posters, theses, drawings, essays and more than 10,000 books which she donated to the City of Paris in 1931, five years before her death, and now preserved in the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in the 13th art. the only feminist library in France. In this episode come with me to find out about her life, her fight for women’s rights, her blond hair and her lion……
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Marguerite Durand, une féministe frondeuse avant l'heure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPGZs0s-ZJw
La bibliothèque Marguerite Durand, féministe et unique en France
Acting Up: The Feminist Theatrics of Marguerite Durand
Marguerite Durand (féministe) — Wikipédia
La Fronde: France's first newspaper run entirely by women In her series on the cultural histories
