24 Facts About Jeanne Schmahl

Jeanne Elizabeth Schmahl was a French feminist, born in Britain.

Jeanne Schmahl married a well-off husband who supported her while she worked as a midwife's assistant in Paris.

Jeanne Schmahl decided to avoid politics and religion and to focus on specific and practical feminist goals.

Jeanne Schmahl led a successful campaign to change the laws so women could legally bear witness and could control their own earnings.

Jeanne Schmahl launched the French Union for Women's Suffrage to campaign for the right of women to vote, but that was not achieved in her lifetime.

Jeanne Schmahl's father was English and her mother was French.

Jeanne Schmahl's father was a lieutenant in the British Navy.

Jeanne Schmahl studied medicine in Edinburgh, but was not able to complete her course.

Jeanne Schmahl was a friend of Jex-Blake, and in contact with the feminist movement in England.

Jeanne Schmahl went to France to continue her medical studies, but interrupted them when she married Henri Schmahl, a Frenchman from Alsace, and took the name of Jeanne Schmahl.

Jeanne Schmahl became a French national in 1873 through her marriage.

Jeanne Schmahl was supported by her husband and lived in comfort beside the Parc Montsouris.

Jeanne Schmahl joined the League for Raising Public Morality, which was mainly concerned with making alcohol and pornography illegal.

Jeanne Schmahl joined Leon Richer's group after she became interested in women's rights.

Jeanne Schmahl joined the Society for the Amelioration of Woman's Condition which had been created by Maria Deraismes.

Jeanne Schmahl was incensed when she discovered that a woman had been dismissed from her job after she asked her employer not to give her wages to her alcoholic spouse.

Jeanne Schmahl admired the British Married Women's Property Act 1882 and she believed a similar law would benefit French women.

Jeanne Schmahl thought that the strategy of the groups, led by Richer and Deraismes, of mixing religion and politics with women's issues was a mistake.

In January 1893 Jeanne Schmahl founded the Avant-Courriere association, which called for the right of women to be witnesses in public and private acts, and for the right of married women to take the product of their labor and dispose of it freely.

Jeanne Schmahl then dissolved the l'Avant-Courriere, which had achieved its goals.

Since 1901 Jeanne Schmahl had belonged to the Women's Suffrage association led by Hubertine Auclert.

Jeanne Schmahl stated that the campaign would be peaceable, and would start by asking for women to be able to vote in municipal elections and sit on municipal councils.

Jeanne Schmahl resigned from the UFSF in 1911 due to disputes with Cecile Brunschvicg, although the reason given was health problems.

Jeanne Schmahl was succeeded as UFSF president first by Eliska Vincent and then by Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger, Jane Misme stayed with the UFSF, which had 12,000 members by 1914.