About Marie Colardeau
Lived 1907 – 1996 (aged 88). Marie Colardeau was a French lawyer.
Marie-Josèphe Paule Julianne le Vigoureux de Kermorvan (30 April 1910 – 20 January 1993), known as Marie Colardeau, was a French feminist and the first female lawyer from the French overseas territory of Réunion.
Biography Colardeau was born in 1910 in Saint-Pierre, Réunion, the daughter of Saint-Pierre mayor Charles-Louis-Victor le Vigoureux de Kermorvan. Her family were old nobility from Franche-Comté. She gained her law license in 1929, and in 1930 became the first female lawyer in Réunion.
She died in 1993 in Saint-Denis, Réunion, aged 82.
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Who was Marie Colardeau?
French lawyer
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Marie Colardeau was born on 10 October 1907 in Saint-Pierre.
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Marie Colardeau died on 16 April 1996 in Saint-Pierre.
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Marie Colardeau was a lawyer.
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Marie Colardeau was French.
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