Marie de Villermont

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Marie de Villermont (1848–1925), countess of Hennequin, was a Belgian artist, writer and feminist.

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Life

Marie Emma Éloïse Françoise de Villermont was born at Saint-Josse-ten-Noode on 16 August 1848, the eldest of nine children of the industrialist Antoine-Charles de Villermont and his second wife, Marie-Adélaïde Licot.

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Training as a painter, Villermont was a member of the Cercle des femmes peintres from 1888. Besides painting, she dedicated herself to writing for such periodicals as La Revue générale and La femme belge (which she also supported financially from 1913 to 1925). She was not only a contributor but also co-editor of La Revue Mauve, an up-market magazine about social and cultural issues published in Brussels from 1897 to 1899. A series of her essays on feminism was later published as the book Le Mouvement féministe: Ses causes, son avenir, solution chrétienne (1900).

In the early twentieth century, Villermont wrote a number of books, including biographies of Veronica Giuliani and Isabella Clara Eugenia.

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Her efforts to better the circumstances of women were not limited to writing. In 1903 she founded the first union of farming women at Ermeton-sur-Biert, leading to the establishment of the Cercle de Fermières at Namur in 1909. [1]

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At the beginning of the First World War she ran a dressing station at her castle, until it was requisitioned by the Germans.

She died at Ermeton-sur-Biert (Namur) on 8 January 1925.

Works

Awards

In 1914 the Académie française awarded Villermont a Montyon Prize for her L'Infante Isabelle (1912). [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIXe et XXe siècles, ed. Éliane Gubin, Catherine Jacques, Valérie Piette & Jean Puissant (Brussels, 2006), pp. 199-200.
  2. ↑ http://www.academie-francaise.fr/node/15231
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