Louise Compain

Louise Compain (also known as Louise Massebiau-Compain; April 23 , 1869 – 1940) was a French feminist author and a co-initiator of the feminist movement in France in the the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Biography

Mélanie Louise Massebiau was born in Vierzon, France, April 23, 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 feminism by writing successful feminist novels.

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

Compain was the aunt of Georgette Hammel born 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.

Works

• 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