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Hélène Brion (27 January 1882 – 31 August 1962) was a French teacher, feminist, socialist and communist. She was one of the leaders of the French teacher's union. During World War I (1914–18) she was arrested for distributing pacifist propaganda, given a suspended sentence and dismissed from her job as a teacher. She visited Russia soon after the Russian Revolution, and wrote a rather naive book on her experiences. It was never published. She devoted much of her effort in later years to preparing a feminist encyclopedia, which was never completed or published. ==Early years== Hélène Brion was born in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne on 27 January 1882. Her family were teachers. She was orphaned when very young, and spent her childhood in the Ardennes with her grandmother. She studied at the Ecole Primaire Supérieure Sophie Germain in Paris to become a teacher. Unions had been authorized in 1884, but state employees could not belong to them. They could however join friendly societies. Brion was working as a teacher in 1905 when she enrolled in the new federation of school teachers and in the Socialist Party (SFIO). Brion never married, but around 1905–07 she had two children by a Russian immigrant. She taught at a nursery school (''école maternelle'') in Pantin, on the outskirts of Paris. Brion was active in various feminist organizations for most of her life, fighting for equal legal rights for women and for the vote. These would include ''Le Suffrage des Femmes'', ''L’Union fraternelle des Femmes'', ''La Fédération féminine universitaire'', ''La Ligue pour le droit des femmes'', ''L’Union française pour le suffrage des femmes'' and ''La Ligue nationale du vote''. In 1907 the International Socialist Conference of Stuttgart forbade socialist women from collaborating with "bourgeois" feminists. Brion, Marthe Bigot and Madeleine Pelletier resisted this decision. While belonging to the extreme left, they tried to maintain radical feminism. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hélène Brion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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