FRENCH SUFFRAGISTS.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12805, 28 May 1910, Page 4

FRENCH SUFFRAGISTS.

The rapidity with which the suffragist, movement is (spreading iv France may be estimated by the fact that for tlie general elections to tlie Chamber of Deputies in May women | Candida Les were to be brought forward ! !in each of the twenty divisions into ! whieli Paris is divided for political purposes. The list made out includes the names of several notableParisians. Mmo. Pelletier, one cf the first women to bo. called to the Bar, and ono of the few women to continue in general practice in the courts was to seek election in the fifth division. In the ninth division Mine. Marguerite Durand, founder of tho women's paper the "Fronde," and who now is at tho head of the daily newspaper '"Los YNouvellos," represented the feminist aspirations. Mine. Hubcrtine Auclore, another leader, stood in the eleventh division, whilst 'other aspirants for parliamentary honours were Mine. Vauthicr, a well known parliamentary correspondent, and .Urne. JLcnoir, of thp suffragist newspaper H Lx KufTraeisto." At present the committee is engaged on a campaign of propaganda. It has been decided to boycott all newspapers hot supporting the movement or giving it full publicity. The aims of the French suffragists are the riirht to vote ancl tho right to electoral Sind general legal equality with the other sex. Apart from their feminist opinions, the candidates represent different (political parties.