Marianne

1- Description.

Marianne is the icon of the French Republic. She embodies the motto of France : « Liberty, Equality, Fraternity ».She is present in all of the townhall of each cities and in the officials buildings of France .

2- Origins.

Marianne comes from the first names Marie and Anne which were very popular in the 18th century and a revolutionary song of the region of « Albi ».

3- Symbols.

Representation	Symbols
1-Phrygian cap	Slave liberated in antiquity
2-Crown	Invincibility
3-Bare chest	The nurse and the emancipation
4-The brest plate	Power
5-The lion	The courage and the force of the people
6-The star	intelligence
7-The triangle	equality
8-The broken chains	liberty
9-The hands crossed	fraternity
10-The beams	authority of the state
11-The scales	justice
12-The hive	work

4- Coins and stamps

Since 1789 (The French Revolution) Marianne has appeared on the French coins and stamps.

« The Liberty leading the people »

On this painting by Eugène Delacroix, we can see Marianne : the allegory of the Liberty.

WOMEN AND SCIENCE- Marie Curie

Marie Curie.

Marie Curie was born on November 7th 1867 in Varsovia. Her father was a professor of mathematics and physics and her mother was a teacher.

She's from Poland and went to France and met Pierre Curie ; she married him  on 26th July 1895. And she even hesitated to accept his marriage proposal !

Did you know ?

She's the first woman who won a Nobel Prize of Chemistry.Marie Curie took the place of her husband because Pierre Curie died in an accident in 1906. She was the first woman to become a professor of general physics and radioactivity.

M.C and P.C  discovered Radium and Polonium, thanks to this discovery they received the Nobel Prize in 1903.

Albert Einstein was a great friend of Marie Curie, when she died, he said « Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whose fame has not been corrupted ».

From our point a view.

Marie Curie was known for her Great Science. She did lots of discoveries like radium and polonium. She is extremely famous in the whole world.

She helped women in getting jobs because she was one of the first female to have a job.

And proved to the people that women were as skilled as men. -Bella Mckenna

She was in touch with with other famous people like Abert Einstein.

Thanks to her, today there are a lot of other women who play an important role. She is important for  all women on this dayof  « Journée de la Femme »on the 8th of March 2016.

Even now that she is dead. 

byMarina Müller

The poster of « Journée de la Femme » for 8th of March 2011.

Marie Curie is the first woman who received a Nobel Prize, but what is more interesting in this woman is that she even received not one but two prizes, the first in colaboration with her husband and Henri Becquerel, and the a second alone. Today we talk about her like the most intelligent woman and now she represents the history of science. 

- by Félicia Ho-a & Plume Lefèvre.

Women and sport

Women now are more present in international high level sport.

There are some women who play sport and are more or less famous. 

Here are some examples

1. Maria Sharapova

She is an international tennis player. She is 28 years old and she is Russian.

2. Lina Magull

She is an international football player. She is 21 years old and she is German.

3. Rochelle Clark

She is an international rugby player. She is 34 years old and she is English.

4. Laure Manaudou

She is an international swimmer. She is 29 years old and she is French.

by Nahuel, Simon and Kéo

A FILM ABOUT SUFFRAGETTES

Suffragettes is a movie, released in 2015. This movie  shows an original story, it was created from official documents and testimonies.

The story is set in England, at the time when women fought for her right to vote. 
At the time, in 1918, just after the first world war, the women began to fight because during the world  war she  worked and took decisions but she couldn't express their opinions about politics.

The main character is Maud Watts, she is a fiction character but she

symbolizes all women who fought for her right, also called 'the suffragettes' .

One of the others characters is Emmeline Pankhurst, she is a real characterof history. E. Pankhurst gave speeches for encouraged women to rebell, during the war, she imprisoned 13 times.

This is a real Emmeline Pankhurst and the actress Meryl Streep who plays her role.

 

The movie is also inspired by others women like Emily Wilding Davison, Olive Hockin, Edith Garrud, Barbara and Gerald Gould... these women had an important role in the history of the right to vote in England.

Finally, women over 30 years old got the right to vote at the end of the war, in 1918. And in 1928, or ten year after, this was extended to all women over the age of 21.  While in France the women got this right just at the end of the second world war after also many battles, in 1944.

There are two website about the movie and the right to vote :

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/britain/votesforwomenrev1.shtml

- http://www.biography.com/news/suffragette-movie-history

by Aiyana