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'''Louise Compain''' (also known as '''Louise Massebiau-Compain'''; April 23 , 1869 – 1940) was a French novelist, journalist, freelance writer, feminist political activist, social reformer, and suffragist.{{sfn|Barton|Hopkins|2019|p=137, 147}}{{sfn|Offen|2018|p=456}} She was the co-initiator of the feminist movement in France in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
'''Louise Compain''' (also known as '''Louise Massebiau-Compain'''; 23 April 1869 – 7 December 1941) was a French novelist, journalist, freelance writer, feminist political activist, social reformer, and suffragist.{{sfn|Barton|Hopkins|2019|p=137, 147}}{{sfn|Offen|2018|p=456}} She was the co-initiator of the feminist movement in France in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.


==Biography==
==Biography==
Mélanie Louise Massebiau was born in [[Vierzon]], France,<ref name="archives18.fr">{{cite web |title=Visionneuse |url=http://www.archives18.fr/arkotheque/visionneuse/visionneuse.php?arko=YTo3OntzOjQ6ImRhdGUiO3M6MTA6IjIwMTktMDEtMzEiO3M6MTA6InR5cGVfZm9uZHMiO3M6MTE6ImFya29fc2VyaWVsIjtzOjQ6InJlZjEiO3M6MToiMSI7czo0OiJyZWYyIjtzOjQ6IjgzNDYiO3M6MjI6ImZvcmNlX251bV9pbWFnZV9kZXBhcnQiO2k6NDM7czoxNjoidmlzaW9ubmV1c2VfaHRtbCI7YjoxO3M6MjE6InZpc2lvbm5ldXNlX2h0bWxfbW9kZSI7czo0OiJwcm9kIjt9#uielem_move=246.78334045410156%2C74&uielem_islocked=0&uielem_zoom=64&uielem_brightness=0&uielem_contrast=0&uielem_isinverted=0&uielem_rotate=F |publisher=Archives Départementales du Cher |accessdate=30 January 2019 |language=French}}</ref> April 23, 1869. She was the daughter of [[Louis Massebieau|Jean Louis Adolphe Massebieau]], professor at the Faculty of Protestant Theology in [[Paris]], and Louise Françoise Marie Boissier.
Mélanie Louise Massebiau was born in [[Vierzon]], France,<ref name="archives18.fr">{{cite web |title=Visionneuse |url=http://www.archives18.fr/arkotheque/visionneuse/visionneuse.php?arko=YTo3OntzOjQ6ImRhdGUiO3M6MTA6IjIwMTktMDEtMzEiO3M6MTA6InR5cGVfZm9uZHMiO3M6MTE6ImFya29fc2VyaWVsIjtzOjQ6InJlZjEiO3M6MToiMSI7czo0OiJyZWYyIjtzOjQ6IjgzNDYiO3M6MjI6ImZvcmNlX251bV9pbWFnZV9kZXBhcnQiO2k6NDM7czoxNjoidmlzaW9ubmV1c2VfaHRtbCI7YjoxO3M6MjE6InZpc2lvbm5ldXNlX2h0bWxfbW9kZSI7czo0OiJwcm9kIjt9#uielem_move=246.78334045410156%2C74&uielem_islocked=0&uielem_zoom=64&uielem_brightness=0&uielem_contrast=0&uielem_isinverted=0&uielem_rotate=F |publisher=Archives Départementales du Cher |access-date=30 January 2019 |language=French}}</ref> on 23 April 1869. She was the daughter of [[Louis Massebieau|Jean Louis Adolphe Massebieau]], professor at the Faculty of Protestant Theology in [[Paris]], and Louise Françoise Marie Boissier.


Compain was a member of the [[French Union for Women's Suffrage]]. A writer and journalist, she became known at the beginning of the feminist movement by writing successful feminist novels. Compain was a social reformer who supported causes related to women's suffrage, women's unions, and women's labor struggles.{{sfn|Barton|Hopkins|2019|p=147}} According to Charity Organisation Society (London, England, 1899):—{{sfn|Charity Organisation Society (London, England)|1899|p=273}}{{quote|text=" Compain observes that the humanitarian tendencies of to-day can only attain their end of drawing closer the social bond by really raising the mass of humanity to a higher standard, and that many difficulties would be smoothed away if employers and their dependents stood at a common moral level."}}
Compain was a member of the [[French Union for Women's Suffrage]]. A writer and journalist, she became known at the beginning of the feminist movement by writing successful feminist novels. Compain was a social reformer who supported causes related to women's suffrage, women's unions, and women's labor struggles.{{sfn|Barton|Hopkins|2019|p=147}} According to Charity Organisation Society (London, England, 1899):—{{sfn|Charity Organisation Society (London, England)|1899|p=273}}{{quote|text=" Compain observes that the humanitarian tendencies of to-day can only attain their end of drawing closer the social bond by really raising the mass of humanity to a higher standard, and that many difficulties would be smoothed away if employers and their dependents stood at a common moral level."}}


In [[Paris]], October 1888, she married Luc Compain (1864-1889),<ref name="archives.paris.fr">{{cite web |title=Accueil |url=http://archives.paris.fr/a/1/ |publisher=Archives de Paris |accessdate=30 January 2019 |language=French}}</ref> Associate Professor at the Lycée de [[Chaumont, Haute-Marne|Chaumont]] who died accidentally November 17, 1889,<ref name="gallica.bnf.fr1892">{{cite web |author=Association des anciens élèves de lettres et sciences humaines des universités de Paris Auteur du |title=Bulletin |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5679707g/f65.image.r=COMPAIN%201889%20LUC%20PULIGNY.langFR |website=Gallica |accessdate=30 January 2019 |language=French |date=1892}}</ref> while preparing a thesis on the history of [[Geoffrey of Vendôme ]], published posthumously in 1891.
In [[Paris]], October 1888, she married Luc Compain (1864-1889),<ref name="archives.paris.fr">{{cite web |title=Accueil |url=http://archives.paris.fr/a/1/ |publisher=Archives de Paris |access-date=30 January 2019 |language=French}}</ref> Associate Professor at the Lycée de [[Chaumont, Haute-Marne|Chaumont]] who died accidentally on 17 November 1889<ref name="gallica.bnf.fr1892">{{cite web |author=Association des anciens élèves de lettres et sciences humaines des universités de Paris Auteur du |title=Bulletin |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5679707g/f65.image.r=COMPAIN%201889%20LUC%20PULIGNY.langFR |website=Gallica |access-date=30 January 2019 |language=French |date=1892}}</ref> while preparing a thesis on the history of [[Geoffrey of Vendôme]], published posthumously in 1891.


Compain was the aunt of [[Georgette Hammel]] (née Roustain; [[Righteous Among the Nations]]), the great aunt of the feminist sociologist and writer [[Évelyne Sullerot]], and the resistance activist, [[Élisabeth Quintenelle]].
Compain was the aunt of [[Georgette Hammel]] (née Roustain; [[Righteous Among the Nations]]), the great aunt of the feminist sociologist and writer [[Évelyne Sullerot]], and the resistance activist, [[Élisabeth Quintenelle]].


Compain died in 1940.
Compain died in December 1941 in [[Paris]].


==Awards==
==Awards==
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===Attribution===
===Attribution===
* {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|ref=harv|last=Besant|first=Sir Walter|title=The Author|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JWtYAAAAMAAJ|edition=Public domain|year=1911}} }}
* {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|last=Besant|first=Sir Walter|title=The Author|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JWtYAAAAMAAJ|edition=Public domain|year=1911}} }}
* {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|ref=harv|author=Charity Organisation Society (London, England)|title=The Charity Organisation Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HgxHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA273|edition=Public domain|year=1899|publisher=Longmans, Green and Company}} }}
* {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|author=Charity Organisation Society (London, England)|title=The Charity Organisation Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HgxHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA273|edition=Public domain|year=1899|publisher=Longmans, Green and Company}} }}


===Bibliography===
===Bibliography===
* {{cite book|ref=harv|last1=Barton|first1=Nimisha|last2=Hopkins|first2=Richard S.|title=Practiced Citizenship: Women, Gender, and the State in Modern France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9wt-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA137|date=1 January 2019|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-1-4962-1247-4}}
* {{cite book|last1=Barton|first1=Nimisha|last2=Hopkins|first2=Richard S.|title=Practiced Citizenship: Women, Gender, and the State in Modern France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9wt-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA137|date=1 January 2019|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-1-4962-1247-4}}
* {{cite book|ref=harv|last=Offen|first=Karen|title=Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eEJBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA456|date=11 January 2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-18804-4}}
* {{cite book|last=Offen|first=Karen|title=Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eEJBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA456|date=11 January 2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-18804-4}}


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Louise Compain (also known as Louise Massebiau-Compain; 23 April 1869 – 7 December 1941) was a French novelist, journalist, freelance writer, feminist political activist, social reformer, and suffragist.[1][2] She was the co-initiator of the feminist movement in France in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Biography

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Mélanie Louise Massebiau was born in Vierzon, France,[3] on 23 April 1869. She was the daughter of Jean Louis Adolphe Massebieau, professor at the Faculty of Protestant Theology in Paris, and Louise Françoise Marie Boissier.

Compain was a member of the French Union for Women's Suffrage. A writer and journalist, she became known at the beginning of the feminist movement by writing successful feminist novels. Compain was a social reformer who supported causes related to women's suffrage, women's unions, and women's labor struggles.[4] According to Charity Organisation Society (London, England, 1899):—[5]

" Compain observes that the humanitarian tendencies of to-day can only attain their end of drawing closer the social bond by really raising the mass of humanity to a higher standard, and that many difficulties would be smoothed away if employers and their dependents stood at a common moral level."

In Paris, October 1888, she married Luc Compain (1864-1889),[6] Associate Professor at the Lycée de Chaumont who died accidentally on 17 November 1889[7] while preparing a thesis on the history of Geoffrey of Vendôme, published posthumously in 1891.

Compain was the aunt of Georgette Hammel (née Roustain; Righteous Among the Nations), the great aunt of the feminist sociologist and writer Évelyne Sullerot, and the resistance activist, Élisabeth Quintenelle.

Compain died in December 1941 in Paris.

Awards

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  • Academy prize for L'un vers l'autre (1903)[8]

Works

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  • La Femme dans les organisations ouvrières, 1910
  • La Vie tragique de Geneviève,1912
  • L'Amour de Claire, 1915
  • La Grand' Pitié des Campagnes de France, 1917
  • Les Portes de la vie spirituelle, 1927
  • La Robe déchirée, 1929
  • Calendrier de la vie spirituelle ou les étapes de l'âme, 1938

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ Barton & Hopkins 2019, p. 137, 147.
  2. ^ Offen 2018, p. 456.
  3. ^ "Visionneuse" (in French). Archives Départementales du Cher. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  4. ^ Barton & Hopkins 2019, p. 147.
  5. ^ Charity Organisation Society (London, England) 1899, p. 273.
  6. ^ "Accueil" (in French). Archives de Paris. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  7. ^ Association des anciens élèves de lettres et sciences humaines des universités de Paris Auteur du (1892). "Bulletin". Gallica (in French). Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  8. ^ Besant 1911, p. 265.

Attribution

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Besant, Sir Walter (1911). The Author (Public domain ed.).
  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Charity Organisation Society (London, England) (1899). The Charity Organisation Review (Public domain ed.). Longmans, Green and Company.

Bibliography

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