Cécile Brunschvicg | |
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Cécile Brunschvicg in 1920. | |
Undersecretary of State for national education of France | |
In office 5 June 1936 – 21 June 1937 |
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President | Albert Lebrun |
Prime Minister | Léon Blum |
Preceded by | Henri Guernut indirectly |
Succeeded by | Léo Lagrange |
Personal details | |
Born | Cécile Kahn July 19, 1877 Enghien-les-Bains, France |
Died | October 5, 1946 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
(aged 69)
Nationality | French |
Political party | PRS |
Spouse(s) | Léon Brunschvicg |
Cécile Brunschvicg ([sesil bʁœ̃svik]), born Cécile Kahn (19 July 1877, Enghien-les-Bains – 5 October 1946, Neuilly-sur-Seine), was a French feminist politician.
She was born into a Jewish middle-class, republican family. Her familial environment was not inclined to let women study, especially not when they were over 17. Already a "liberated" woman (for the time), it was her meeting, and subsequent marriage to, Léon Brunschvicg, a feminist philosopher and member of the Ligue des droits de l'homme, that spurred her to feminist activism; she became vice-president of the League of Electors for women's suffrage.
She was named Undersecretary of State for national education in the first Léon Blum government.