A PARISIAN WRITER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue XVII, 28 April 1894, Page 404

A PARISIAN WRITER.

The woman’s movement is making great strides in modern France, notwithstanding that a good deal of ridicule is cast upon it. Mme. Cheliga Loevy, although not a French woman by birth, started the present movement, and she works unceasingly to ameliorate the lot of her poor sisters under the existing laws and regulations. She is the president of the International Union of Women, which has its headquarters in Paris She lives with her husband, who is an artist, in a flat in the old quarter of Paris. The only daughter of a wealthy Polish nobleman, she learned when a child to speak and write French fluently. At the age of 16 she wrote and published her first novel. About ten years ago she settled in Paris, and while there met and married her hnsband, who shares all her ideas, moral, political and social. It was not until after the congress in 1889 that Mme. Cheliga Loevy made up her mind to found the Union Universelie des Femmes, which won the approval of Simon and Renan. In connection with this association she started the Bulletin des Femmes, a tiny magazine devoted to all that concerns women’s work. She acts as correspondent of a number of foreign periodicals, and has at times lectured. She claims absolute equality with men. neither more nor less, and is by conviction a socialist. Her mode of life makes it almost impos sible for her to go much into society, but she is to be met occasionally in literary and political circles.