10 Facts About Madeleine Braun

Madeleine Braun nee Weill was a French publisher and politician.

Madeleine Braun was a Depute of the Seine for the Communist Party and, in 1946, she became the first woman vice-president of the National Assembly.

Madeleine Braun was the daughter of Albert Weill, a company director, and Gabrielle Hirsch, a painter.

Madeleine Braun married Jean Braun, a businessman, on 8 July 1930.

Madeleine Braun, born Madeleine Weill, studied at the Villiers School and the Faculty of Law in Paris.

Madeleine Braun was involved in the Amsterdam-Pleyel Movement, of which she was a member of the executive committee, and the International Coordination and Information Committee for Assistance to Republican Spain, of which she was general secretary between 1936 and 1937.

Madeleine Braun was an editor of the Patriot, which she later became director of after the liberation of Lyon.

Madeleine Braun was elected vice-president of the National Assembly on 14 June 1946; a role in which she was to chair the sessions and debates along with the other Vice-Presidents.

Madeleine Braun was the first woman in the history of the Republic to receive this post.

Madeleine Braun did not run for office again in 1951.