Caroline de Barrau [SEP] country of citizenship
foreign.
She gave some of them financial support.
Caroline de Barrau thought that women were prohibited from attending public universities in France more by custom than for legal reasons. The solution was to prepare women adequately for university study, and then enroll them. Her daughter Emilie, with other young women "intellectually prepared for work of university grade, appeared at the proper time and place for enrollment." They were admitted to study medicine at the University of Paris.
The Berry family, headed by a civil servant
the Abolition of Prostitution, called the "Association pour l'abolition de la prostitution réglementée", with Victor Schœlcher (1804–1893) as president. The association included feminists, radicals and abolitionists.
The most active organizers of the French Association for the Abolition of Official Prostitution were the feminist leaders Maria Deraismes, Emilie de Morsier and Caroline de Barrau.
For some years Caroline de Barrau led the institution of the "Libérées de Saint-Lazare", which helped former prisoners of Saint-Lazare, mostly prostitutes, to return to