Edmée de La Rochefoucauld (1896-1991) was a French activist for women’s voting rights and a writer, sometimes using the pseudonym Gilbert Mauge.

[3] De La Rochefoucauld was a Catholic leader in French women’s efforts to win the right to vote.

[3] In 1927, she founded and directed the UNVF's periodical L'Union nationale des femmes (National Union for the Vote for Women).

[3] In the 1950s, she published studies of Anna de Noailles, poet Leon-Paul Fargue, Yvan Goll, and Paul Valéry.

[3] She was elected to the Belgian Royal Academy of the French Language and Literature in 1962 and later that decade, published a guide to Cahiers of Paul Valéry (1964–1966).