Marie Léopold-Lacour Explained

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.

Biography

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

Wife of the feminist writer Léopold Lacour,^[3] 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,^[4] and responding to the arguments of their opponents.^[5]

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.

Selected works

Opera libretto

• Vlasta, opera libretto, with Mrs. Paul Poirson
• Sylvain et Gaël, comic opera libretto, with Mrs. Paul Poirson

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),
• Les Morts aimés, pantomime, (Les Escholiers)
• Nuit d'hyménée !, pantomime, (Les Escholiers),
• 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

• Mary Leopold Lacour, "Madame Gabrielle Réval", Femina, 1 October 1903, p. 685.^[8]

External links

• "RAPPORT DE MME MARY LÉOPOLD-LACOUR, RAPPORTEUR, PREMIÈRE PARTIE, Historique et Tableau de la Coeducation a l'etranger et en France.", CONGRES INTERNATIONAL DE LA CONDITION & DES DROITS DES FEMMES. Tenu les 5, 6, 7 et 8 Septembre 1900. A L'EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, Au Palais de l'Economie sociale et des Congrès. (in French)

Notes and References

1. Web site: GAIA 9 : moteur de recherche . consultation.archives.hauts-de-seine.net . 15 January 2022 . fr.
2. Book: Damian-Gaillard . Béatrice . Le journalisme au féminin: Assignations, inventions, stratégies . 17 July 2015 . Presses universitaires de Rennes . 978-2-7535-3904-4 . 15 January 2022 . fr.
3. Book: Margadant . Jo Burr . The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France . 4 September 2000 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-22141-3 . 15 January 2022 . en.
4. Book: Thébaud . Françoise . Françoise Thébaud . Zancarini-Fournel . Michelle . Michelle Zancarini-Fournel . Coéducation et mixité . 2003 . Presses Univ. du Mirail . 978-2-85816-706-7 . 15 January 2022 . fr.
5. Book: Beach . Cecilia . French Women Playwrights of the Twentieth Century: A Checklist . 1996 . Greenwood Press . 978-0-313-29175-3 . 240 . 15 January 2022 . en.
6. Book: Literature . 1898 . Harper and Brothers . 461 . 2 . https://books.google.com/books?id=apNAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA461 . 15 January 2022 . en . There is talk in Paris.
7. Book: Offen . Karen . Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920 . 11 January 2018 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-107-18804-4 . https://books.google.com/books?id=eEJBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA289 . 15 January 2022 . en . Condition et Droits Congress - 5-8 September 1900.
8. Book: Mesch . Rachel . Having It All in the Belle Epoque: How French Women's Magazines Invented the Modern Woman . 3 July 2013 . Stanford University Press . 978-0-8047-8713-0 . 211 . https://books.google.com/books?id=rXQlAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA211 . 15 January 2022 . en . Notes to Chapter 2.