Marie-Reine Guindorf

In August 1832, together with Désirée Véret, she founded La Femme libre in response to Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin's exclusion of women from decision-making among the Saint-Simonists.

This publication is not a speculation, but a work of faith in the freedom and community of women, after having deeply felt the slavery and inferiority that weigh on our sex.

Women, who until now have not had an organization that allowed them to dedicate themselves to something big, could only deal with small individual matters that left them in isolation.

Marie-Reine married the young Saint-Simonist Flichi after returning from a mission to the Mediterranean led by Émile Barrault.

At the end of 1836, Suzanne Voilquin lived in the young couple's apartment in the Rue Montmorency in Paris for six weeks, until January 8, 1837.