Marthe Bigot

[3] As an institutrice Bigot and other feminist teachers including Marthe Pichorel and Marie Guillot were investigated and strongly reprimanded for their pacifist attitudes.

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

[3] La Voix des femmes had contributors with diverse views and did not have a purely feminist agenda, but it pursued a radical line.

[8] Writing in l'Ouvrière on 5 August 1922 Bigot said that employers who paid family allowance to men rather than direct to mothers were contributing to "the economic inferiority of the woman, placing her absolutely under the domination of her husband."

The Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) leader Martin Labe, however, was opposed to payments direct to wives, asking, "can we accept the infliction of this gratuitous insult to fathers who are breadwinners?

"[9] Marthe Bigot left the Communist Party at the end of 1925 and joined the staff of the Révolution Prolétarienne directed by Pierre Monatte.

[1] The party demanded civil and civic equality for women, but accused suffragist organizations of helping to maintain the bourgeois regime.