Occupation of Saint-Nizier church by Lyon prostitutes

In April 1975, the Lyon prostitutes started to organise themselves and their leader, "Ulla" appeared on television to publicise the women's demands.

[6] They demanded the end of fines, police harassment[4] and the release from jail of ten women who had been imprisoned a few days earlier for soliciting.

[6][7] The striking workers sang political chants and demanded decent working conditions and an end to stigma.

[8][9] Abolitionists, in the form of the Movement du Nid,[10][11] also supported the occupation, hoping the public awareness it raised would help end prostitution.

[15] In 2016, a play, Loveless, written by Anne Buffet and Yann Dacosta, an adaptation of the book, Une vie de putain,[16] was enacted at the National Dramatic Center of Normandy-Rouen[15] it was also staged in Lyon at the Théâtre des Célestins in 2018.