Olympe Audouard

Olympe Audouard

Olympe Audouard (13 March 1832 – 12 January 1890)^[1] was a French feminist who demanded complete equality for women, including the rights to vote and to stand for election.

Born in Marseille as Félicité-Olympe de Jouval, she married on 11 April 1850 the lawyer Henri-Alexis Audouard (b. 2 May 1829). The couple separated in 1858, but was divorced only in 1885, shortly after the French divorce law (the "loi Naquet") had finally been passed on 27 July 1884.^[2] Audouard was the founder of the newspaper Le Papillon, one of only two feminist newspapers in France that supported Naquet's divorce laws.^[3]

Selected works

• Audouard, Olympe (1867). L'Orient et ses peuplades. Paris: E. Dentu.

References

1. N.N.: Adouard, Olympe^{[permanent dead link‍]}. In French. URL last accessed July 14, 2006.
2. Plot, Michèlle: Divorce and Women in France Archived 2006-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions. URL last accessed July 14, 2006.
3. White, Nicholas (2017). French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War. New York: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781351192170.

Further reading

• Faure, Christine (2003). Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women. London: Routledge. ISBN 1-57958-237-0