[2] L'Émilie is the oldest European feminist newspaper, and was founded by Emilie Gourd in 1912 under the name Le Mouvement Féministe.
After a short period writing for the judicial column of the Journal de Genève, Chaponnière joined the Swiss francophone television company Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR).
[6] In this essay, Chaponnière explored the impossible reconciliation of the traditional roles assigned to the feminine identity, evolving between seduction and maternity.
The book recalls the history of fixity between men and women since medieval times and provides insights on the way mixity is treated in education, society, and the professional and political world.
One of her essays published in 2015 portrays the murder of Ernst vom Rath, which served as an excuse for the Nazis to start the pogroms against the Jews known as Kristallnacht.