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Léo, André (pseudonym) (1824 - 1900)

Short name Léo, André (pseudonym)
VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/56653702/
First name Victoire Léodile
Birth name Béra
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Alternative name Victoire Léodile Champseix
Date of birth 1824
Date of death 1900
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Sex Female
Alternative gender Male
Place of birth Lusignan
Place of death Paris
Lived in France , Italy , Switzerland , Paris
Place of residence notes André Léo went in exile two times. The first time, after Napoleon III's coup d'état, she goes to Switzerland, returning to Paris in 1861. The second time, after the Paris Commune, she leaves for Switzerland again, but moves to Italy after a while. She returns to France after the 1880 amnesty.
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Léo, André (pseudonym) was ...
related to Bosquet, Amélie
related to Tinayre, Victoire
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Place(s) of Residence France , Italy , Switzerland , Paris
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Jacques Galeron (1865) 1 0

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Joseph Tourtin, photograph of André Léo, Paris, circa 1868, original picture in the AAL association None is portrait of

Beach, Cecilia & Sowerwine, Charles, "André Léo,", in : le Dictionnaire universel des Créatrices, https://www.dictionnaire-creatrices.com/fiche-andre-leo
Bellet, Roger, "André Léo, écrivain-idéologue," in : Romantisme, no. 77, 1992.
Le Bras-Chopard, Armelle, "Pierre Leroux ou l’invitation à la démocratie," in : Esprit, no. 168, 1991

MENTIONED IN:
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: feminist, maar "wrote primarily to support her family, rather than to further the feminist cause"
Cf.
- Stephens, 125

Biblio:
- Sigrid Lambertz, Die "femme de lettres" im "Second Empire" : Juliette Adam, André Léo, Adèle Esquiros und ihre Auseinandersetzung mit dem weiblichen Rollenbild im 19. Jahrhundert. 1994 (in KB)

Alternative name: Victoire Léodile Champseix
Nature of relation to Amélie Bosquet: professional colleague

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