Louise Bodin was a French feminist and journalist who became a member of the steering committee of the French Communist Party.
11 Facts About Louise Bodin
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Louise Bodin's father was a communard, but otherwise nothing in her background predestined her to become a revolutionary.
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Louise Bodin had a typical education for the period, and married a professor of medicine.
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In March 1913 several women and a few men founded a local group of the French Union for Universal Suffrage, of which Louise Bodin soon became president for Ille-et-Vilaine.
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World War I caused Louise Bodin became more aware of the class struggle.
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Louise Bodin noted that the Russian Revolution was hated because it had affected the sacred caste.
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Louise Bodin contributed to journals such as la Vie Ouvriere, l'Humanite and Populaire among others.
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Louise Bodin was a strong supporter of women's role as mothers, although she did not agree with the objectives of the maternalist movement.
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Louise Bodin edited the party's La Voix communiste, published in Rennes, until 1923, when it merged with the Brest-based Germinal to become La Bretagne communiste.
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Louise Bodin was secretary of the Communist Federation of Ille-et-Vilaine, and was elected to the steering committee of the Communist party at the Marseilles congress in December 1921.
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Louise Bodin died on 3 February 1929 after a year of agony.