Jenny d'Héricourt

Her father, Jean-Pierre Poinsard, a clock gilder, was born in the town of Héricourt, Haute-Saône, from which Jenny later took her pseudonym.

D'Héricourt wrote her first novel, Le Fils du réprouvé ("The son of the reprobate")(1844), under the pseudonym Félix Lamb.

She was an enthusiastic supporter of Étienne Cabet, the French socialist, and took part in the Revolution of 1848.

D'Hericourt helped develop an unofficial international network of feminists during the first half of the 19th century.

She also wrote an influential rebuttal to the sexist essays of the anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and historian Jules Michelet.