Marcelle Devaud

Marcelle Devaud (7 January 1908 – 4 November 2008) was a French politician.^[1] She was a member of the French parliament from 1946 to 1962.^[2][3] She was the first female vice-president of the French senate.^[4] She was a Gaullist and advocate for women's rights.^[5][6][7]

Marcelle Devaud speaking at a conference, Lomé, Togo, July 1975

Marcelle Gouguenheim was born in Constantine, a French département of Algeria.^[1] She was married to Stanislas Devaud, a French philosopher and politician.

References

1. Brown, Megan (2022). The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community. Harvard University Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-674-25114-4.
2. Véronique Helft-Malz, H. Levy, Paule, Encyclopédie des femmes politiques sous la V^e République, Paris: Éd. Patrick Banon, 1996, 371 p.
3. Victoria Man, Marcelle Devaud : itinéraire d'une femme politique française, entretiens et témoignages, Paris : E. Carvallo, 1997, 154 p.
4. "European Women's Lobby (EWL)". Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique de l’Europe. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
5. Denéchère, Yves (2004). Femmes et diplomatie: France, XXe siècle (in French). Peter Lang. ISBN 978-90-5201-233-9.
6. Mazur, Amy G. (1996-03-15). Gender Bias and the State: Symbolic Reform at Work in Fifth Republic France. University of Pittsburgh Pre. ISBN 978-0-8229-7484-0.
7. Duchen, Claire; Bandhauer-Schoffmann, Irene (2010-07-15). When the War Was Over: Women, War, and Peace in Europe, 1940-1956. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4411-7270-9.