Eugénie Potonié-Pierre (5 November 1844 – 12 June 1898 Paris) was a French feminist who founded the Federation of French Feminist Societies in 1892.
She joined the Society for the Amelioration of Women's Condition with Léon Richer and Maria Deraismes in the 1870s. She served as the secretary and wrote for the organization's publication Le Droit des femmes (Women's Rights). In 1880, with Léonie Rouzade, she founded Union des Femmes.
She was secretary of the committee of the International Congress for Women's Rights, in 1892, and 1896. In her speech to the International Congress of 1896 in Berlin, Potonié-Pierre credited herself and French feminist peers with coining the term féminisme.
Death
She died 12 June 1898, from a cerebral hemorrhage at age 54. She is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Quote
The woman of the future will, I'm certain, be the same as today's, able to see beyond oppressive laws and idiotic customs.
References
- Nicholas John Cull; David Holbrook Culbert; David Welch (2003). Propaganda and mass persuasion: a historical encyclopedia, 1500 to the present. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-57607-820-4.
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- Kirstin Olsen (1994). Chronology of women's history. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-313-28803-6.
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- Claire Goldberg Moses (1984). French feminism in the nineteenth century. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-87395-859-2.
- Karen M. Offen (2000). European Feminisms, 1700-1950: A Political History. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-804-73420-2.
- "POTONIE PIERRE Eugénie ( ? -1898)". www.appl-lachaise.net. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011.
- Rui Manuel G. de Carvalho Homem; Maria de Fátima Lambert, eds. (2006). Writing and seeing: essays on word and image. Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-1698-9.
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