Marie Parent

Marie Parent (1853–1934) was a Belgian journal editor, temperance activist, feminist and suffragist. She founded the Alliance des femmes contre les abus de l'alcool (Alliance of Women against Alcohol Abuse) in 1905 and the Ligue belge des femmes rationalistes (Belgian League of Rationalist Women) in 1920. For over 20 years, she headed and edited the Journal des Mères (Mothers' Journal), for which she received the Adelson Castiau award from the Royal Academy of Belgium and a gold medal at the 1910 Brussels International Exhibition.

Biography Born on 20 December 1853 in Brussels, Marie Parent was the seventh and last child of Jean-Jacques Florimond Parent, a printer and publisher, and Marie de Vogelsang, who took over her husband's business when he died. In 1920, she founded and became president of the which had a membership of 20,000.

Marie Parent died in 1934.