The Sowers

Oscar ROTY
The sowers, 1897.

This collage is a tribute to a few remarkable women, women of letters, women of science, politically committed women or artists... chosen from French women between 1789 and the present day.

Women mentioned :
Yvette Roudy – Orlan – Françoise Barré Sinoussi – Elisabeth Badinter – Agnès Varda
Edith Piaf – Jacqueline Auriol – Niki de Saint Phalle – Marguerite Yourcenar
Madeleine Pelletier – Claude Kogan – Germaine Tillon – Simone de Beauvoir – Suzanne Valadon
Marie Curie – Louise Michel – Colette – Camille Claudel
Flora Tristan – Madeleine Brès – Comtesse de Ségur – Berthe Morisot – Marguerite Durand
Olympe de Gouges – Georges Sand – Rosa Bonheur – Sophie Germain

Pages from the following books :
Olympe de Gouges 1748 – 1793 The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen 1791
Countess of Ségur 1799 – 1874 Good Little Girls 1858
Colette 1873 – 1954 Claudine at School 1900
Simone de Beauvoir 1908 – 1988 The second sex 1949
Elisabeth Badinter born in 1944 L'un est l'autre 1986
Françoise Sagan 1935 – 2004 Hello Sadness 1954
Benoîte Groult 1920 – 2016 Ainsi soit-elle 1975