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Marie Denizard was a French feminist activist, a suffragette, a politician, a journalist, a teetotaler, a tax resister, a pacifist, a researcher, and a writer. She is famous as the first woman to stand as a candidate in a French presidential election. She was born on April 3, 1872, in Pontru, Aisne, Hauts-de-France. In the early 1910s, she moved with her mother and sisters to Amiens.
Denizard became a feminist at the end of the 19th century. She contributed to writings of Marguerite Durand and Paul Dussaussoy. During the 1910 French legislative election, she announced her candidacy for the French Chamber of Deputies. She sup
Marie Denizard was a French feminist activist, a suffragette, a politician, a journalist, a teetotaler, a tax resister, a pacifist, a researcher, and a writer. She is famous as the first woman to stand as a candidate in a French presidential election. She was born on April 3, 1872, in Pontru, Aisne, Hauts-de-France. In the early 1910s, she moved with her mother and sisters to Amiens.
Denizard became a feminist at the end of the 19th century. She contributed to writings of Marguerite Durand and Paul Dussaussoy. During the 1910 French legislative election, she announced her candidacy for the French Chamber of Deputies. She supported civil rights for women, and opposed alcoholism and child abandonment. But women were ineligible to stand for election back then. In the same year, Denizard drafted a motion in favor of women's rights to vote and to stand for election.
In March 1911, Denizard sent a letter to the prefect of the Somme asking to free French women from taxation because women were deprived of all political rights.
In April 1912, she wrote an article about her hypothesis that Jean-Baptiste Lully's ancestry belonged to the Picardy region. She also belonged to the l'Étoile bleue temperance league in Amiens.
In 1913, she became the first woman to stand as a candidate in a French presidential election. Denizard contributed to Arria Ly's Le Combat féministe newspaper in the same year.
In 1914, she was evacuated to Bordeaux because the First World War. She made pacifist statements and placed under surveillance.
In 1926, she was accused of having mental health problems and forcibly hospitalized. She was transferred to the asylum at Leyme in 1928. She spent 32 years there against her will. On May 21, 1959, Marie Denizard died in that asylum.
French women obtained the right to vote and to stand for election in 1944. A plaque in memory of Marie Denizard was unveiled at the Pontru town hall on May 20, 2024.
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