[3] Caroline de Barrau became interested in educational issues, and won the respect of Élisa Lemonnier, founder of schools for professional training of women, while raising her own children.

[1] Caroline de Barrau moved to Paris when needed for the education of her children and other pupils, and opened her home to young medical students, mostly foreign.

[1] Caroline de Barrau thought that women were prohibited from attending public universities in France more by custom than for legal reasons.

Her daughter Emilie, with other young women "intellectually prepared for work of university grade, appeared at the proper time and place for enrollment."

[5] His sister Harriot Stanton Blatch visited them in Paris in 1881, and described Caroline de Barrau as "an exceptional daughter of France of the aristocratic, protestant element."

The women's teachers' journal L'Ami de l'enfance, co-edited by Pauline Kergomard and Charles Defodon, raised the alarm.

Caroline de Barrau noted that nursery schools had been founded as an initiative of women which the state then chose to support.

[5] In 1866 a feminist group called the Société pour la Revendication du Droit des Femmes began to meet at the house of André Léo.

Members included Paule Minck, Louise Michel, Eliska Vincent, Élie Reclus and his wife Noémie, Mme Jules Simon and Caroline de Barrau.

By 1872 the AIF was viewed with suspicion, since the word "International" was associated with the Paris Commune, and was divided over the leadership of Marie Goegg.

[9] At the 1877 congress in Geneva of the International Federation for the Abolition of Regulated Prostitution Caroline de Barrau reported that women workers in Paris, mostly employed seasonally, earned about two francs per day on average.