Marlène Schiappa, Minister Delegate in Command of Citizenship, paid tribute to Renée Périni-Pagès, "heroine of the resistance," on Friday during a celebration on the Beauvau lodge to "restore historical oversight." She was the first Corsican feminist and the first woman to serve on a municipal council in 1943.
"Remember that among the many Corsican resistance fighters who paved the way for liberation, there were admirable girls." "There was Renée Pagès," said the Deputy Minister. Marlène Schiappa praised "the character, the energy, the desire" and the dedication of a lady who was "of all the struggles for a free France."
“A girl who doesn’t have her life dictated by anybody”
She underlined the truth that Renée Pagès was the primary girl to take a seat on a municipal council, in Ajaccio in 1943, “when the appropriate to vote and the eligibility of girls didn’t but exist in France”. Born March 21, 1914 and died in 2005, Renée Pagès comes from a household of Corsican resistance fighters. She notably contributed to “guaranteeing the hyperlinks between the management of the resistance and that of the French Communist Occasion”, underlined Marlène Schiappa.
The ceremony came about within the presence of Hélène and Leïla de Cormarond, granddaughters of Renée Pagès, mayor of Cachan and journalist respectively. Leïla de Cormarond underlined the “communist” dedication of her grandmother, that of a “girl who doesn’t have her life dictated by anybody”, including that “it’s this imaginative and prescient of feminism that she transmitted to us. “. “74% of elected girls are subjected to sexism in politics” in line with a survey, recalled Hélène de Cormarond, mayor of Cachan, stressing the topicality of the fights carried by her grandmother.
A plaque was additionally unveiled in tribute to Ren̩e Pages and the minister introduced that she wished to rename her workplace, which is able to now bear the identify of the previous resistance fighter. The tribute came about lower than two weeks after the entry into the Pantheon of Jos̩phine Baker, the primary black girl to hitch the nice French figures. Feminist, anti-racist activist and music corridor determine, Josephine Baker is simply the sixth girl in historical past Рout of 80 illustrious figures Рto enter the Pantheon.
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