Maria Vérone Explained

Maria Vérone
Birth Date:	20 June 1874
Birth Place:	Paris, France
Death Place:	Paris, France
Nationality:	French
Alma Mater:	Faculty of Law (Sorbonne)
Occupation:	Journalist, Attorney, Suffragist

Maria Vérone (1874–1938) was a French feminist and suffragist. A free-thinker,^[1] she was the president of the Ligue Française pour le Droit des Femmes (French League for Women's Rights) or LFDF, from 1919 to 1938.^[2]

Life

Vérone was born on June 20, 1874, in Paris, France.^[3] She served as secretary at the International Congress of Freethinkers when she was 15 years old. In 1903 she became the first woman to plead before French appeals court.^[4] She supported herself as a teacher, but was dismissed for her political opinions and unionizing activities.^{[5] [3]}

Vérone became a reporter for the French feminist newspaper La Fronde, which was published by Marguerite Durand.^[5] Her journalism on legal and judicial matters led to her interest in becoming a lawyer. In 1907 Vérone, a single mother of two, was admitted to the French bar.^[3]

Vérone served as president of Ligue Française pour le Droit des Femmes for 20 years.^{[2] [4]}

Vérone died on May 24, 1938, in Paris.^[3]

See also

• First women lawyers around the world
• List of suffragists and suffragettes

Sources

Bibliography

• Christine Bard. Les filles de Marianne : histoire des féminismes 1914–1940. Paris : Fayard, 1995.
• Laurence Klejman and Florence Rochefort. « Vérone (Maria), 1874–1938 », Dictionnaire des intellectuals français, Jacques Juillard and Michel Winock, ed. Paris : Seuil, 1996.
• Raymond Hesse & Lionel Nastorg, Leur manière...: plaidoiries à la façon de... Raymond Poincaré, Maria Vérone, etc., B. Grasset, Paris, 1925, 212 p.
• Sara L. Kimble, « No Right to Judge : Feminism and the Judiciary in Third Republic France. » French Historical Studies 31, no. 4 (2008): 609–641. https://www.academia.edu/307609 https://depaul.academia.edu/SaraKimble
• Sara L. Kimble, « Popular Legal Journalism in the Writings of Maria Vérone. » PWSFH Volume 39, 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.0642292.0039.021
• Juliette Rennes, Le mérite et la nature : une controverse républicaine, l'accès des femmes aux professions de prestige, 1880–1940, Fayard, 2007, 594 p.

External links

• Maria Vérone : « Pourquoi les femmes veulent voter » (conférence du 24 avril 1914, avec une courte biographie)
• Square Maria Vérone (délibération du Conseil Municipal du 18ème arrondissement de Paris en janvier 2010)

Notes and References

1. Book: Michèle RIOT-SARCEY. Histoire du féminisme. 21 April 2016. La Découverte. 978-2-7071-8839-7. 54.
2. Book: Sara L. Kimble. Marion Röwekamp. The rise of "modern Portias. "New Perspectives on European Women’s Legal History. 1 July 2016. Routledge. 978-1-317-57716-4. 139.
3. Web site: Vérone, Maria (1874–1938) . Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia . Encyclopedia.com . 3 August 2019.
4. Web site: Maria Verone . Women In Peace . 3 August 2019.
5. Web site: Kimble . Sara L. . Popular Legal Journalism in the Writings of Maria Vérone . Proceedings of the Western Society for French History . 3 August 2019 . 2011.