[4] The Fédération française des sociétés féministes was created to deal with the divergences in opinion and approach between different feminist groups.
[8] The Federation's main task was defined as preparing a Cahier des doléances féminines (List of feminist grievances).
[2] Valette founded the weekly tabloid L'Harmonie sociale which first appeared on 15 October 1892 as a means of making contact with working women to understand their concerns.
[2] However, the contributors to the journal, who included Eliska Vincent, Marie Bonnevial and Marya Chéliga-Loevy, were more interested in feminism than socialism.
The journal serialized August Bebel's Woman under socialism and published various texts and resolutions of socialist congresses, although it was not always accurate and was far from Marxist.
[11] At the 1893 general assembly Valette stated that the Federation consisted of sixteen groups with total membership of 35,000 figures, but the latter numbers had no grounding in reality.