Gabrielle Alphen-Salvador

Thérèse Léa Maryvonne Gabrielle Alphen-Salvador (1 April 1856 –15 June 1920) was a French philanthropist, feminist suffragist and pacifist. From the 1890s she was active in the women's movement, becoming one of the founders of the National Council of French Women (Conseil national des femmes françaises) in 1901 and later participating in the French Union for Women's Suffrage (Union française pour le suffrage des femmes). She is remembered above all for helping to establish the École professionnelle d'assistance aux malades, France's first school for nurses. As the institution's president from 1900 to 1920, she was instrumental in its further development.

Biography Born on 1 April 1856 in Paris, Thérèse Léa Maryvonne Gabrielle Salvador was the daughter of Daniél Lévi Salvador, generally known as Gabriel Salvador, and Séphora Adamine Crémieux. In March 1878, she married the banker Émile Alphen who died in 1891. From then on she lived with her sister Margueritte Brandon in a large Paris apartment. becoming a prominent socialite. They held a salon, inviting scientific and cultural figures, including the author André Gide and the politician Eugène Rouart.

Gabrielle Alphen-Salvador died on 15 June 1920 at Ballan-Miré, Indre-et-Loire. She is buried in the family tomb in the local cemetery.