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Madeleine Pelletier

French physician, psychiatrist, feminist, socialist, editor (1874-1939).

Born May 18th, 1874 in 2nd arrondissement of Paris. [ref]

Died December 29th, 1939 at 65 years old in Épinay-sur-Orge (stroke). [ref]

Occupations
anthropologist, autobiographer, biographer, editor, essayist, physician, politician, psychiatrist, suffragette, women's rights activist, writer

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Ausonius