| Item | Details | |------|---------| | | Cécile Auclert (née Cécile Hélène Gustave Gilles‑Pélissier) | | Born | 8 September 1856, Paris, France | | Died | 9 March 1929, Paris, France | | Profession | Journalist, essayist, feminist activist | | Key affiliation | Founder of the Société pour le Droit des Femmes (Society for Women’s Rights) in 1882; active in the International Council of Women and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance . | | Main cause | Women’s suffrage, legal equality for women, and the right to “unmarried motherhood” (the right of women to bear children and raise them without being forced into marriage). |
| Event / Publication | Summary | |---------------------|---------| | (Paris, Musée d’Orsay annex) | A temporary exhibition displayed letters, newspaper clippings, and a rare portrait of Auclert. No nude artwork was part of the show. | | 2023 – Women’s History Review article “Unmarried Motherhood in 19th‑Century France: The Legacy of Cécile Auclert” | Academic analysis of Auclert’s campaign for legal reform concerning illegitimacy. | | 2024 – Digital archive launch (Bibliothèque nationale de France) | The BnF digitised Auclert’s personal correspondence and made them searchable. The collection is indexed under “Cécile Auclert” – no “nu” tag appears . | | Social‑media resurgence (Twitter/X, Instagram) | In early 2024, French feminist influencers posted “#CécileAuclert” to commemorate International Women’s Day, sparking a modest uptick in web searches. | cecile auclert nu