Pauline Rebour

Pauline Rebour (1878–1956) was a French academic noted for her works as a feminist and suffragist. She was the founder of Feminist Society of Le Havre and was a member of the French Union for Women's Suffrage, and the Secular and Democratic Action of Women (1935).

Biography Rebour was born December 1878 in Mortain, France to Théophile Boyenval, a school teacher and college administrator, and Alice Harel. and was identified as a lawyer during her tenure at the French Union for Women's Suffrage as part of its central committee. Her contemporaries include Jeanne Chauvin, Olga Petit, Suzanne Grinberg, and Marcelle Kraemer-Bach. As part of her co-education campaigns, she also promoted teaching young girls along with boys at home. Her works for the Federation Feministe Universitaire also contributed in achieving equal treatment for female teachers in France. In response to the claim that women did not need political rights since they exert influence at home, she wrote in La Francaise that the exclusion from the commission with emphasis on motherhood and children exposed the argument's flaw. She also headed the suffrage section of the CNFF with the support of her husband, Raoul, who was a high ranking civil servant.