Paule Mink was a French feminist and socialist revolutionary of Polish descent. She participated in the Paris Commune and in the First International. Her pseudonym is also sometimes spelled Minck.
Adle Paulina Mekarska was born onNovember 1839, in ClermontFerrand. Her father, Count Jean Nepomucne Mekarski, was a Polish officer who had gone into exile after the unsuccessful Polish uprising of 1830 he was a relative of the last Polish king, Stanislas II. Her mother was an aristocrat, JeanneBlanche Cornelly de la Perrire. Adles parents were enlightened liberals who apparently became adherents of the utopian socialism of Henri de SaintSimon. Adle was welleducated, mostly by private tutors. She had two younger brothers, Louis and Jules both participated in the Polish uprising of 1863 and in the Paris Commune.
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