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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.
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]
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.
The French Union for Women's Suffrage (UFSF) was founded by a group of feminists who had attended a national congress of French feminists in Paris in 1908. [12] Most of them were from bourgeois or intellectual backgrounds. [13] The leaders were Jeanne Schmahl and Jane Misme. [12] The founding meeting of 300 women was held in February 1909.
Thérèse Léa Maryvonne Gabrielle Alphen-Salvador (1856–1920) was a French philanthropist, feminist suffragist and pacifist.From the 1890s she was active in the women's movement, becoming one of the founders of the National Council of French Women (Conseil national des femmes françaises) in 1901 and later participating in the French Union for Women's Suffrage (Union française pour le ...
In 1901, she was one of six women who established the National Council of French Women (Conseil National des Femmes Françaises). [1] Pognon was also a keen writer, contributing some 70 articles to the women's journal La Fronde between 1897 and 1900. In 1893, she was one of the 17 women who founded the Droit Humain masonic lodge which was open ...