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Dufau, Clémentine-Hélène (1869-1937) La Fronde.
Paris: Charle Verneau, 1898.
Large landscape format chromolithographic poster advertising the radical French feminist newspaper, La Fronde; mounted on linen and lightly rolled, 54 x 39 in.
La Fronde, or The Slingshot, was founded by feminist activist Marguerite Durand (1864-1936) and first published in December 1897. The paper was managed, edited and composed exclusively by women. In a contemporary newspaper interview published in the British press, Durand said that she was inspired to start La Fronde when Paris "match girls" staged a general strike. "I made up my mind that a journal was absolutely necessary, not only to force the Chamber of Deputies to recognize that we had civil and political rights, but also to defend the interests of poor women workers and to guide them in forming themselves into unions or in joining existing syndicates, because I am convinced that mixed trade unions are needed to put an end to the terrible competition of the sexes, and to force employers of labor to respect the principle of equal pay for equal work."
Dufau's image reinforces Durand's general plan, depicting a well-dressed woman in the foreground gesturing out over Paris while clasping the hand of a gaunt disheveled woman with a small child.
