Marie Huot

Marie Huot (born Mathilde Marie Constance Ménétrier; 28 June 1846 – 13 April 1930) was a French poet, writer, feminist, and animal rights and vegetarianism activist.

Biography Mathilde Marie Constance Ménétrier was born in 1846. In 1869, she married Anatole-Théodore-Marie Huot, the editor of the leftist Parisian review, L'Encyclopédie Contemporaine Illustrée. She was a close friend of the Swedish anarchist and impressionist painter Ivan Aguéli, whom she indirectly introduced to Sufism and to whom she dedicated her collection of Symbolist poems Le Missel de Notre-Dame des Solitudes ("The Missal of Our Lady of Solitudes").

Huot was an advocate for animal rights and member of the Parisian animal protection society, founder of the Popular League against Vivisection and France's first hospice for animals. In 1892, Huot delivered a public conference, in which she demanded free access to abortion and contraception.

Selected publications

Articles

"Le Droit des Animaux" ("Animal Law"), La Revue socialiste, Iss. 6, 1887, pp. 47–56

Books

Le Missel de Notre-Dame des Solitudes ("The Missal of Our Lady of Solitudes") (Paris: E. Sansot, 1908) (preface by Rachilde) Le Mal de Vivre ("The Pain of Living") (Paris: Génération Consciente, 1909)