She was extremely active, attending conferences, dealing with regional and national authorities and campaigning against child poverty and for women's causes.

[2] She traveled throughout France, inspecting schools and communicating her educational philosophy based on respect for the child and the search for fulfillment.

[1] Pauline Kergomard and Charles Defodon co-edited the Ami de l'enfance, the organ of the French maternal educational system.

Caroline de Barrau noted that nursery schools had been founded as an initiative of women which the state then chose to support.

[6] She and Léopold Lacour were able to obtain agreement on the final resolution, in favor of changing to a coeducational system in all countries.

[5] In 1897 she co-founded the "People's Union" with Ferdinand Buisson, Maurice Bouchor, Émile Duclaux and Théodore Steeg.