Louise-Félicité de Kéralio

Louise-Félicité Guynement de Kéralio (25 August 1758 in Valence, Drôme – 31 December 1821 in Brussels) was a French writer and translator, originating from the minor Breton nobility.

[4] She was unable to complete it[5] On 3 February 1787 she was elected to the Academie of Arras, where she was received by its President Maximilien Robespierre.

During the French Revolution she was politically active and assumed a number of roles that were unusual for women, including being a member of the Cordeliers Club[6] where her husband was president for a time, and of the Fraternal Society of Patriots of Both Sexes.

Over the next two years she edited a number of other journals, which were essentially vehicles for her views on society, rights and the revolution – Le Mercure national, ou Journal d’État et du Citoyen, then Le Mercure national et Révolutions de l’Europe and finally Le Mercure national et étranger, ou Journal politique de l’Europe.

For example, when the political theorist Sieyès proposed in 1789 that the future constitution should make women and children 'passive citizens', the Journal d'etat et du citoyen commented: Following the Flight to Varennes, the Central Committee of popular societies, which Kéralio and Robert coordinated, circulated a petition declaring that Louis XVI had deserted his post, that by this act of perjury had in fact abdicated, and that the signatories no longer owed allegiance to the king.