Caroline Rémy de Guebhard

Caroline Rémy de Guebhard, also known as Séverine or Madame Séverine (* April 27, 1855 in Paris, † April 24, 1929 in Pierrefonds ) was a French socialist, journalist and feminist.

Life

Around 1880 Caroline Rémy started at Jules Vallès ' socialist publication " Cri du Peuple " under the pseudonym " Séverine " cooperate. Vallès gave her finally because of his poor health, control of the newspaper. When their views were always pugnacious, she became friends with her ​​journalistic and feminist colleague Marguerite Durand on, but after a dispute with the Marxists Jules Guesde she left the newspaper in 1888. She continued to write articles in which they called for the emancipation and social injustice of any kind, including the Dreyfus affair denounced. In 1897 she began to Durand's feminist newspaper " La Fronde " work.

Since she was a staunch leftist, Rémy supported some anarchist claims, including the defense of Germaine Berton and took part in the experiment in 1927 in part to save Sacco and Vanzetti. You supported the Russian Revolution of 1917 and 1921, she joined the Communist Party ended its membership, however a few years later because she wanted to devote the Alliance for Human Rights more time.

A founding member of the " Ligue Contre le Racisme et l' International Antisemitisme " ( International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism ), Bernard Lecache, wrote her biography. Séverine wrong not only in political but also in artistic circles. My portrait by Pierre -Auguste Renoir from 1885 located now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Caroline Rémy died in 1929 at the residence for female journalists in Pierrefonds in Oise in the Picardie region. Some of her work can be found in the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in Paris.

Works

• L' insurgé (Eng. The revolt, nor the rebels or insurgents story of a ). 3rd part of the trilogy of novels Jacques Vingtras, partly autobiographical, by Jules Vallès. Completed by Caroline Rémy. Paris 1886

• Journalist (France)
• Feminist
• PCF Member
• Person of anarchism
• Frenchman
• Born in 1855
• Died in 1929
• Woman