Signed autograph letter by Cécile Brunschvicg, 1937, Popular Front feminism

  
Document on letterhead paper: Ministry of National Education, Under-Secretariat of State - Cabinet, 3 rue de Valois (Paris). Dated: Paris, 21 June 1937.

Content referring to a meeting in Chambon-Feugerolles and the issue of children with disabilities. Addressee: Madame Levalliant: it concerns.

A lawyer, activist for child protection, she was the first woman at the Saint-Étienne Bar. Jewish and a recognized member of the Resistance, she was arrested and then deported to Poland, where she died in 1943 shortly afterward, at the Sobibor camp. Cécile Brunschvicg is an important figure in the history of French politics and the feminist movement. Cécile Kahn, who became Cécile Brunschvicg (1877–1946), was a French politician and feminist. In 1936, she was one of the first three women to join a French government, along with Irène Joliot-Curie and Suzanne Lacore, even though women did not yet have the right to vote. Signs of use (folds, small losses, binder holes), see photos.