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The National Council of French Women (French: Conseil National des femmes françaises, CNFF) is a society formed in 1901 to promote women's rights.The first members were mainly prosperous women who believed in using non-violent means to obtain rights by presenting the justice of the cause.
The French women who participated in the delegation were de Witt-Schlumberger; [44] Cécile Brunschvicg, a founder of the French Union for Women's Suffrage and its first general secretary; [45] and Marguerite Pichon-Landry, [44] chair of the legislation section of the National Council of French Women. [46]
Under her presidency the suffrage section of the National Council of French Women was created in 1906. Sarah Monod was a member of journal L'Avant-Courriere (founded in 1893), and even joined the French Union for Women's Suffrage .
Lefaucheux was President of the National Council of French Women from 1954 to 1964. Her husband died in a car accident in 1955, and following his death, she became France's Representative to the Commission on the Status of Women of the United Nations, one of the committees of the Economic and Social Council, where she assumed the presidency.
In 1901, she took part in the founding of the Conseil national des femmes françaises (National Council of French Women). In 1904, she fell out with the Société nationale des beaux-arts because it had no women on its committees. In 1917, she criticized the pacifists and supported the war effort.
The National Council of French Women was created in 1901, the National Council of Italian Women in 1903, [17] and the National Council of Belgian Women in 1905. [18] The first National Council of Women of Australia was established in 1931 to coordinate the state bodies existing prior to Australia's Federation.
In 1884, she helped found a nursing society, and in 1908, the National Civil Rights and Women's Suffrage Congress. Delamarre de Monchaux was also active in the National Council of French Women. As a close associate of Hubertine Auclert, she regularly called for women's right to vote.
From 1914 to 1927 she chaired the Legislation section of the National Council of French Women (CNFF: Conseil National des femmes françaises). [1] She joined the French Union for Women's Suffrage (UFSF: Union française pour le suffrage des femmes), and was vice-president of the UFSF until the end of the 1930s. [1]