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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.
Maugeret's Christian feminism defended the family as the "basic social cell", and thought that mothers should stay at home, but fought for the rights of women who were forced to work. [4] In 1901 the National Council of French Women (Conseil National des Femmes Français) was founded, headed by Sarah Monod. The majority of the members were ...
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.
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 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]
Jane Misme (1865–1935) was a French journalist and feminist. She founded the feminist journal La Française (The Frenchwoman), published from 1906 to 1934, and was a member of the executive of the French Union for Women's Suffrage and the National Council of French Women.
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 ...
Julie Siegfried (born Julie Puaux: 13 February 1848 – 28 May 1922) was a French feminist. She served as president of the Conseil National des femmes françaises (CNFF/ literally, "National Council of French Women") between 1913 and 1922.