Olympe Audouard


Olympe Audouard was a French feminist who demanded complete equality for women, including the rights to vote and to stand for election.
Born in Marseille as Félicité-Olympe de Jouval, she married on April 11, 1850 the lawyer Henri-Alexis Audouard. The couple separated in 1858, but was divorced only in 1885, shortly after the French divorce law had finally been passed on July 27, 1884.