Victoire Tinayre

Marguerite Victoire Tinayre (, 6 March 1831 – 16 August 1895) was a French educator, writer, socialist and political activist. She was a member of the Paris Commune and operated under the pseudonyms Jean Guêtré, Jean Tinayre and Jules Paty.

Biography Tinayre was born on 6 March 1831 in Issoire, Puy de Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Her family were artisans and members of the republican bourgeoisie. She ran a private school (école libre) in Issoire, in a room lent to her by her father, before moving to Paris. When she was allowed to teach again, she directed Protestant free schools in Neuilly, Bondy and Noisy-le-Sec.

Tinayre published two novels in the 1860s about peasant families moving to Paris, titled Un Rêve de femme and La Marguerite, the second of which was dedicated to the French novelist and memoirist George Sand. The cooperative joined L'Internationale and the Federal Chamber of Workers' Societies. Under the Commune, she was a member of the Women's Union for the Defense of Paris and the Care of the Wounded.

On 27 November 1879, Tinayre received an amnesty on her sentence. Their collaboration was difficult due to ideological differences. and taught in the schools of the Guise family from 1883 to 1885.