Overview of the exhibition
A look back at the genesis of women's struggles for the recognition of their rights and their emancipation, illustrated by portraits of political, artistic or even anonymous personalities, testifying to this fight, which is still relevant today.
4222-6 DG
Popular Front. Bastille Day parade : cleaning ladies, window cleaners... members of the C.G.T. [...]
3130-16 DG
Young woman soldering with a blowtorch on a metal structure. Paris, circa 1930.
1971-10 DG
Swimmers, 1925.
18680-5 DG
Art dealer on a boulevard. Paris, around 1930.
2165-13 DG
World War II. Liberation of Paris. Group of members from the FFI (French Forces of the Interior), [...]
350-11 DG
World War I. Women working in an ammunition factory. France.
15661-1 DG
Denise Hébert, French artist, driving a Citroën car at the Fête des Caf' Conc'. Montrouge (France), [...]
894-7 DG
World War I. Women working in a gunpowder factory. France.
9797-3 DG
Young woman presenting a dress of yachting. Meulan (France), circa 1935-1937.
279-8 DG
Marie Curie (1867-1934) and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), French physicists, in [...]
559-14 DG
World War One. Woman driving a streetcar in Paris.
4245-10 DG
Poster girls. Paris, circa 1900.
3927-5 DG
French fries seller. Paris, circa 1920.
4248-11 DG
Miss Harriet Stanton Blatch (1856-1940), American suffragette, during a meeting in WallStreet. New [...]
195-13 DG
Demonstration of suffragettes at the Condorcet monument. Paris, on July 5, 1914.
4219-10 DG
Municipal elections. First women's vote in France. Poster of the "Femmes d'action" (women of [...]
564-2 DG
Young women wearing horse suits. France, circa 1930.
567-3 DG
Fishmonger. Paris, 1904-1905.
3816-5 DG
Inauguration by the princess of Polignac of buildings intended for small housekeepings, financed by [...]
1366-14 DG
Strike of young women working in fashion. Paris. 1910.
1921-2 DG
Mrs Decourcelle, the first woman driver, driving an autotaxi. Paris, bois de Boulogne.
18866-1 DG
World War One. Demonstration of French and Belgian women volunteering to serve as auxiliaries in [...]
1992-7 DG
Draping corsages at Worth fashion house. Paris, 1907.
1464-12 DG
Dressmakers ("Midinettes") on strike. Demonstration at place Vendôme. Paris, May 18, 1917.
8572-1 DG
Isadora Duncan (1878-1927), American dancer, surrounded by Albert Guillaume, Arnyollde, Edward [...]
4368-1 DG
Pond of the Tuileries park. Paris (1st arrondissement), circa 1925.
3895-5 DG
Meeting of the committee for the women's right to vote, under the presidency of Mrs Maria Verone. [...]
4227-11 DG
Magdeleine Chaumont, founder of the "Forces féminines françaises" (French feminine forces), circa [...]
11018-21 DG
Paediatric school. Faculty of Medicine. Physiology of the nervous system class. Paris, boulevard [...]
4248-12 DG
Maryse Bastié (1898-1952), French airwoman.
18680-4 DG
Café - shop selling tobacco products, stamps and newspapers.
18680-2 DG
Stains (France). "l'Humanité" newspaper seller. 1946.
7211-7 DG
Claire Bonnardelle, French socialist suffragette. France, 1910.
4301-8 DG
Staff waiting room of a hospital in Paris, at the beginning of the XX-th century.
3942-3 DG
Doll manufacture. France, 1942.
2389-5 DG
Suzanne Lenglen (1899-1938), French tennis player.
18680-6 DG
Student defending a thesis on Jules Lemaître. Paris, Sorbonne, around 1930.
1176-8 DG
Demonstration for the women's right to vote, in front of the Chamber of Deputies. Paris, 1935.
1267-7 DG
Jeanne Lanvin (1867-1946), French fashion designer, draping a fabric on a model.
1125-6 DG
Feminist demonstration during legislative elections. Women "voting" at an improvised polling [...]
4227-2 DG
Mrs Thévenin, lawyer, president-founder of the international Union of lawyers. Paris, circa 1925.
871-3 DG
First women's suffrage during municipal elections. Paris, April 1945.
4246-10 DG
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), left, and Mrs Pettick, British suffragette, circa 1910.
9564-2 DG
First women's vote in France. Isoloir of a municipal election office. Paris, April 1945.
339-14 DG
Colette (1873-1954), French writer.
12599-4 DG
Marguerite Durand (1864-1936), French journalist, founder of the newspaper "La Fronde" and news [...]
45-8 DG
Swimmer on the beach of Deauville (France), circa 1925.
4245-24 DG
Feminist demonstration. Paris, circa 1930.
568-12 DG
Bread carrier. Paris, 1908.
1740-3 DG
Milliner reading the newspaper "Le Petit Parisien". Paris, 1899.
4229-15 DG
Suffragettes leaving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Paris, circa 1910.
1215-11 DG
Propaganda by the League of women voters for the women's right to vote. France, 1925.
846-7 DG
World War One. Waitresses in a Parisian café.
3564-4 DG
Marthe Bray (centre), French suffragette who founded the "Ligue d'action féministe pour le [...]
3911-2 DG
Pantdress at the Skating Rink, about 1910.
3256-12 DG
Feminists demonstration. Suffragettes selling badges and copies of the newspaper "La Française", [...]