Cl%C3%A9mence Royer
Clmence Royer was a selftaught French scholar who lectured and wrote on economics, philosophy, science and feminism. She is best known for her controversial 1862 French translation of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species.
AugustineClmence Audouard was born onApril 1830 in Nantes, Brittany, the only daughter of AugustinRen Royer and JosphineGabrielle Audouard. When her parents married seven years later her name was changed to ClmenceAuguste Royer. Her mother was a seamstress from Nantes while her father came from Le Mans and was an army captain and a royalist legitimist. After the failure of a rebellion in 1832 to restore the Bourbon monarchy the family were forced to flee to Switzerland where they spentyears in exile before returning to Orlans. There her father gave himself up to the authorities and was tried for his part in the rebellion but was eventually acquitted.
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