Antoinette Quinche
Antoinette Quinche was a Swiss feminist and politician. She was president of the Schweizerische Aktionskomitee für Frauenstimmrecht from 1932 to 1959.Biography
Quinche was born in Diesse, Switzerland on February 25, 1896. First woman to enter the Gymnase de la Cité à Lausanne. She went on to study law and become a lawyer. In 1952, she and 1,414 other disputants from her community demanded to be entered into the voters' register. With the argument that the cantonal constitution at that time did not explicitly exclude women's voting rights, they went with their demand before the Federal Court. Again as in 1923, they were rejected by reference to Gewohnheitsrecht.
Quinche died in Lausanne, Switzerland on May 13, 1979.
