Rachel Lempereur

Rachel Odile Lempereur (, 14 February 1896 – 8 Octobers 1980) was a French teacher, politician and trade unionist. She was elected to the National Assembly in 1945 as one of the first group of French women in parliament. She served in the National Assembly until 1958.

Biography Lempereur was born Rachel Odile Nuez in Lille in 1896. She married Marcel Lempereur in 1923 in Liège, Belgium, and they had two daughters together. She worked as a primary school teacher in Lille.

After being elected, she became a member of the National Education and Fine Arts Commission and the Family and Population Commission. Focussing largely on educational issues while in office, she remained a member of the National Education Commission, serving as its vice president from 1946 to 1958 and then president from 1956 to 1958. She additionally was president of the Finance Committee from 1956.

In the 1958 elections Lempereur contested Nord's 2nd constituency, but was defeated by Henri Duterne of the Union for the New Republic. She ran unsuccessfully again in 1962, 1967 and 1968. She was expelled from the Socialist Party (PS) in 1973 after running against joint PS–French Communist Party candidate Gérard Thieffry in the cantonal elections.

Lempereur died in Saint-André-lez-Lille in 1980.