Marie Bonnevial

Marie Bonnevial was a French teacher and womens rights activist. She became Grand Mistress of the Supreme Council of Le Droit Humain.

Marie Bonnevial was born onJune 1841 in RivedeGier, Loire, to a poor family. She was able to go to school, and under the Second French Empire she was a secular school teacher in Lyon. During the FrancoPrussian War she served as a volunteer nurse.

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