[3] Rennes was a rough city at the turn of the century where alcoholism was endemic, there was no money for a girls' school, and the municipal council openly complained about the shortage of brothels[citation needed].

In March 1913 several women and a few men founded a local group of the French Union for Universal Suffrage, of which Bodin soon became president for Ille-et-Vilaine.

In June 1913 she took her manuscript Les Petites Provinciales to Paris seeking a publisher, and was rejected by many reviews.

[4] In 1917, she and Colette Reynaud founded the journal La Voix des femmes, to which the major feminists contributed including Nelly Roussel and Hélène Brion.

[4] Bodin was a strong supporter of women's role as mothers, although she did not agree with the objectives of the maternalist movement.

[8] In 1919, she wrote against the right of nuns to teach girls, since they had chosen to withdraw from modern life with its needs and struggles.

Louise Bodin commented in L'Humanité (9 August 1920), "The social prison of woman has been furnished with one more bar; such is the justice of men.

As editor-in-chief, Louise Bodin wrote on the front page on 13 January 1921 that the Congress of Tours had laid out the route forward after the first Russian Revolution.

A supporter of the left opposition, and opposed to the exclusion of Leon Trotsky, she broke with the French Communist Party in November 1927.