14 Facts About Eliska Vincent

Eliska Vincent was a Utopian socialist and militant feminist in France.

Eliska Vincent argued that women had lost civil rights that existed in the Middle Ages, and these should be restored.

Eliska Vincent created extensive archives on the feminist movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries, but these have been lost.

Eliska Vincent was imprisoned for his participation as a Republican in the French Revolution of 1848.

Eliska Vincent joined the Societe pour la Revendication du Droit des Femmes, which first met in 1866 at Andre Leo's house.

Eliska Vincent supported the Paris Commune in 1871, and was almost executed for her role.

In 1878 Eliska Vincent was a delegate to a worker's congress.

In 1888 Eliska Vincent formed the feminist group Egalite de Asnieres, named after the suburb in which she lived.

Eliska Vincent wanted to restore women's rights that she felt had existed during the Middle Ages.

Eliska Vincent was among the advocates of women's suffrage who pointed out that in earlier days, when the right to vote was tied to ownership of landed property, it had been common for women to vote.

On 4 April 1893 Vincent was among a group of women who formed a lodge in the Masonic tradition headed by Maria Deraismes as Grand Master, Le Droit Humain.

Eliska Vincent resigned from Egalite in 1900 when it allied itself with the larger National Council of French Women.

Eliska Vincent was an active member of the French Syndicalists, a trade union group that believed the working classes should be active in forcing social change.

In 1909 Eliska Vincent accepted the position of honorary vice-president of the Union francaise pour le suffrage des femmes.