Jeanne Mélin (17 September 1877 – 18 April 1964) was a French pacifist, feminist, writer and politician who wrote under the pseudonym Thalès Jehanne.

[3] Mélin gained a solid reputation as a speaker through her participation in pacifist and feminist conferences in France and Europe between 1910 and 1914.

[4] She had advanced views on morality, and in 1907 advocated birth control and sex education for girls as well as boys.

[5] On 24 August 1914 the Germans reached the Ardennes and her home town, where she lived with her aged parents, was bombed.

[7] In May 1916 Mélin created Les cuisines coopératives to feed and house refugees from the Ardennes, with the support of the APD.

[8] The Comité d'Action Suffragiste (CAS) was created in December 1917, directed by Jeanne Mélin, Marthe Bigot and Gabrielle Duchêne.

[4] At a CAS conference on 7 March 1918 Mélin and Monette Thomas outlined a new constitution for France based on universal suffrage for women and men.

It called for men and women to collaborate in rebuilding the cities that had been destroyed and to define new social and international laws.

Her program called for full civil equality, political and economic of both sexes, and the election of a Vice-President of the Republic.

In the last years of her life she espoused utopian socialist views in which she advocated the abolition of wage labor, the equitable distribution of wealth, and peaceful decolonization.