27 Facts About Lucie Colliard

Lucie Colliard, born Lucie Claudine Parmelan was a French teacher, pacifist, trade unionist and communist from Haute-Savoie.

Lucie Colliard was dismissed from her position as a teacher during World War I for her pacifist activities.

Lucie Colliard was active in the far left of the communist movement in France in the 1920s and 1930s.

Lucie Colliard was a native of Saint-Felix, in the Albanais, south of Haute-Savoie.

Lucie Colliard studied at a religious school for a period, then at a normal school, where she qualified as a teacher.

Lucie Colliard became an activist in the French Section of the Workers' International in 1912.

Lucie Colliard received pacifist colleagues and helped them cross the border into Switzerland to attend the major meetings of international socialists and pacifists.

In June 1917 Lucie Colliard was forced to move to a new school due to her "extreme pacifism" and because she had expressed sympathy for the German people.

Lucie Colliard was arrested in 1918 and her licence to teach was revoked until 1925.

In 1918 Lucie Colliard founded the journal La Vague.

In 1920 Lucie Colliard joined the French Communist Party.

At the PCF's Tours Congress in December 1920 Lucie Colliard was appointed a delegue a la propagande, a propagandist.

Lucie Colliard was a member of the French delegation to the Third Congress of the Communist International in Moscow in 1921.

Lucie Colliard was a deputy member of the CD from 1922 to 1924.

Lucie Colliard was a member of the female secretariat of the Confederation generale du travail unitaire from 1923 to 1925.

Lucie Colliard was dispatched by Charles Tillon to support the sardine cannery strike at Douarnenez, Finistere in 1924.

Lucie Colliard reported on this "belle greve de femmes" from start to finish for l'Humanite.

Lucie Colliard was ill at ease with the word "comrade", which she felt was "more Bolshevik than Breton".

Lucie Colliard's account was published as a book in 1925.

Lucie Colliard signed the letter of the 250 to the executive committee of the Communist International in 1925.

Lucie Colliard became actively opposed to the party's position in 1926.

Lucie Colliard was a co-signatory of the Manifesto of the 22 for trade union unity in 1930.

Lucie Colliard was a member of the organizing committee for the rally against war and the union sacree in 1935.

Lucie Colliard agitated in support of the Spanish republicans and against repression in the USSR.

Lucie Colliard joined the Workers and Peasants' Socialist Party in 1938.

Lucie Colliard was elected to the municipal council of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine in April 1945 and became deputy mayor two years later, at the age of seventy.

Lucie Colliard left the SFIO in 1958, and died in 1961 aged about 84.