Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger

Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger
Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger
photo-portrait from 'Le Pays de France', 5 July 1919
Born
Marguerite de Witt-Guizot

(1853-01-20)20 January 1853
Paris, France
Died23 October 1924(1924-10-23) (aged 71)
OccupationsPhilanthropist and campaigner for
SpousePaul Schlumberger (1848–1926)
ChildrenJean Schlumberger (1877–1968)
Conrad Schlumberger (1878–1936)
Daniel Schlumberger (1879–1915)
Pauline Schlumberger (1883–1973)
Marcel Schlumberger (1884–1953)
Maurice Schlumberger (1886–1977)
Parent(s)Conrad de Witt
Henriette Guizot de Witt

Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger (20 January 1853 – 23 October 1924) was a French campaigner for pronatalism, alcoholic abstinence, and feminism. She was the president of the French Union for Women's Suffrage (Union française pour le suffrage des femmes / UFSF) movement.[1] She married into the Schlumberger family and became a powerfully influential matriarch and the mother of several sons who achieved notability in their own right.[2] An activist in international women's rights circles, Witt-Schlumberger was a leading suffragist at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.[3] For her active involvement and service to the government, she was awarded the Croix of the French Legion of Honour in 1920.[1]

  1. ^ a b Margaret Cook Andersen (2015). Voting for the family: The Fight for Familial Suffrage in France and North Africa. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-4497-9. Retrieved 3 March 2016. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "The Schlumberger family...Marguerite Schlumberger, a woman committed to the French cause". Musée virtuel du Protestantisme / Virtual Museum of Protestantism. Fondation pasteur Eugène Bersier, Paris. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  3. ^ Siegel, Mona L. (2020). Peace on our terms the global battle for women's rights after the First World War. New York. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-231-55118-2. OCLC 1124788151.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)