Isabelle Bogelot

Isabelle Bogelot
Born Isabelle Amélie Cottiaux
(1838-05-11)May 11, 1838
Paris, France
Died June 14, 1923(1923-06-14) (aged 85)
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Nationality French
Occupation Philanthropist

Isabelle Bogelot (11 May 1838, Paris - 14 June 1923, Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French philanthropist and feminist.

Biography

Born Isabelle Amélie Cottiaux, Bogelot was the daughter of Antoine André Cottiaux, a Parisian cotton trader, and Marie Anne Thérèse Cottiaux, from Cambrai. Orphaned at a young age (her father died when she was 2 and her mother when she was 4), she was adopted by the family of Maria Deraismes and her sister Anna Féresse-Deraismes.[1]

On May 7, 1864, she married Gustave Bogelot, a lawyer for the Court of Appeal of Paris.[2] The couple had at least two children.[3]

Distinctions

On January 1, 1889, she received the Ordre des Palmes académiques for the creation of temporary shelters. On May 2, 1894 she became a chevalier of the Legion of Honour.[4]

Bibliography

References

  1. Journal La Française, 3 octobre 1936.
  2. Marriage certificate, Paris, 18th arrondissement.
  3. Isabelle Bogelot dedicated her work, Trente ans de solidarité to her children. Her death in 1923 was declared by her son Paul Bogelot, born 1866.
  4. Record of the Legion of Honour, digitized national archives.
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