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Léontine Zanta
Léontine Zanta (14 February 1872 – 15 June 1942) was a French philosopher, feminist and novelist. One of the first two women to gain a doctorate in France, and the first to do so in philosophy, Zanta "was an intellectual celebrity in her day, active in journalism and in the feminist movement of the 1920s."
Life.
Zanta was born in Mâcon. Her doctoral thesis, defended in May 1914, was on the 16th-century revival of Stoicism. She never secured
du féminisme", 1922
- "La part du feu", 1927
- "Sainte-Odile", 1931
Further reading.
- Robert Garric, Introduction, in Teilhard de Chardin, "Letters to Léontine Zanta", trans. Bernard Wall, London: Collins, 1969.
- Henri Maleprade, "Léontine Zanta, vertueuse aventurière du féminisme", Paris: Rive droite, 1997.