Jeanne Francoise Morand, known as Jane Morand, was a French seamstress, housekeeper, and individualist anarchist activist.
14 Facts About Jane Morand
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Jeanne Francoise Jane Morand was born in Bey on 17 August 1887, in Saone-et-Loire.
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Jane Morand's father was an anarcho-syndicalist laborer, and she began working as a seamstress in Saint-Marcel.
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Jane Morand had two sisters, Alice and Marie, who joined her in the capital and became involved in French anarchist circles.
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Jane Morand did not hesitate to resist, defend herself, and even bite the police officers who arrested her.
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In 1906, for instance, along with Albert Libertad and a man named Millet, Jane Morand was arrested for fighting with a subway inspector and a police officer.
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For two years, Jane Morand worked as a domestic servant for the Henry family on Boulevard Saint-Martin before leaving her job.
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Jane Morand then moved into the headquarters of the individualist anarchist newspaper, L'Anarchie.
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Jane Morand maintained connections with anti-colonial circles and, in 1912, briefly had a relationship with Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, an Indian revolutionary, who moved in with her.
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Jane Morand then became the secretary of the Comite Feminin, one of the leading anarcha-feminist and feminist organizations of the time.
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Jane Morand returned in 1915 to assist anarchists seeking to avoid conscription and to carry out antimilitarist propaganda.
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Jane Morand's sentence was reduced to five years of imprisonment and ten years of banishment.
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Jane Morand undertook two hunger strikes to obtain recognition as a political prisoner, receiving widespread support that extended beyond anarchist circles.
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Jane Morand died on 26 February 1969, in Fitz-James, in the Oise department.