Marie Léopold-Lacour

Marie Léopold-Lacour (née, Jourdan; also known as Mary Léopold Lacour; 6 January 1859 - 5 December 1942) was a French feminist activist, journalist, playwright, poet, and storyteller. She was a champion of mixed-gender schools. Lacour died in 1942.

Marie Leopold-Lacour
BornMarie-Rachel Jourdan
6 January 1859
Royan, France
Died5 December 1942
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Occupation
  • feminist activist
  • journalist
  • playwright
  • poet
  • storyteller
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrench
Genre
  • opera libretto
  • pantomime
  • plays
  • sketches
  • non-fiction articles

Biography

Marie-Rachel Jourdan was born 6 January 1859, in Royan.[1][2] She contributed to feminist journals such as La Fronde,[3] founded by Marguerite Durand.

Wife of the feminist writer Léopold Lacour,[4] she shared his passion for mixed-gender education. She spoke at the International Congress of Women of 1896, in Paris, chaired by Marie Bonnevial, describing the state of mixed-gender schools in Europe,[5] and responding to the arguments of their opponents.[2]

In Literature (Harper and Brothers, 1898), Léopold-Lacour's name was included on a list of potential members if an Academy of Ladies was formed in Paris, several meetings already having been held to deliberate on the scheme.[6] She participated in the planning committee of the "Condition et Droits" Congress, September 1900.[7]

Mary Leopold-Lacour died 5 December 1942, in Neuilly-sur-Seine.[1]

Selected works

Opera libretto

Pantomime
  • L'Héritage de Pierrot, pantomime in 2 acts, performed in Paris, at the Théâtre de l'Application (Les Escholiers), 20 May 1892
  • Le Rendez-vous ou Plus fort que la mort, pantomime, (Les Escholiers), c. 1895-1896
  • Les Morts aimés, pantomime, (Les Escholiers) c. 1895-1896
  • Nuit d'hyménée !, pantomime, (Les Escholiers), c. 1895-1896
  • Don Juan aux enfers, ballet-pantomime in 1 act, music by Henri José, performed at the Casino de Paris, 29 November 1897
  • La Chambre des aïeux, pantomime in 1 act, 10 scenes, published in Les Saisons, autumn 1921

Plays
  • Un pauvre bûcheron, play in 1 act, published in La Pensée sur la Côte d'Azur, ca. 1923, and performed in Paris, at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, 20 December 1923

Sketches
  • La Sérénade inutile, sketch published in La Pensée sur la Côte d'Azur, ca. 1929

Articles

References
  1. "GAIA 9 : moteur de recherche". consultation.archives.hauts-de-seine.net (in French). Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  2. Beach, Cecilia (1996). French Women Playwrights of the Twentieth Century: A Checklist. Greenwood Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-313-29175-3. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  3. Damian-Gaillard, Béatrice (17 July 2015). Le journalisme au féminin: Assignations, inventions, stratégies (in French). Presses universitaires de Rennes. ISBN 978-2-7535-3904-4. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  4. Margadant, Jo Burr (4 September 2000). The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22141-3. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  5. Thébaud, Françoise; Zancarini-Fournel, Michelle (2003). Coéducation et mixité (in French). Presses Univ. du Mirail. ISBN 978-2-85816-706-7. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  6. "There is talk in Paris". Literature. Vol. 2. Harper and Brothers. 1898. p. 461. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  7. Offen, Karen (11 January 2018). "Condition et Droits Congress - 5-8 September 1900". Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-18804-4. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  8. Mesch, Rachel (3 July 2013). "Notes to Chapter 2". Having It All in the Belle Epoque: How French Women's Magazines Invented the Modern Woman. Stanford University Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-8047-8713-0. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
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