Simone Rollin

Simone Rollin (5 September 1910 – 7 February 1991) was a French trade unionist and politician. As vice-president of the Popular Republican Movement, she was elected to the National Assembly in October 1945, becoming one of the first group of French women in parliament. She served in the National Assembly until June the following year, and later served in the Council of the Republic from 1946 to 1948.

Biography Rollin was born Simone Norbert in Montendre in 1910; her mother was a seamstress, while her father worked as a mechanic in a Renault factory. She began work after leaving primary school. Although she lost her seat in the June 1946 elections, she was elected to the Council of the Republic in December 1946, serving in the upper house until November 1948.

A mother of six, Rollin died in La Grande-Motte in 1991.