Daniel Lesueur
Daniel-Lesueur (1854-1921) is the masculine pseudonym of Jeanne Loiseau. She was a talented female writer, but also a great philanthropist and a feminist who committed sensitively to the defense of women’s rights.
Perfectly bilingual, she excell
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Daniel-Lesueur (1854-1921) is the masculine pseudonym of Jeanne Loiseau. She was a talented female writer, but also a great philanthropist and a feminist who committed sensitively to the defense of women’s rights.
Perfectly bilingual, she excelled in various literary genres, as novels, poesy, translation and theater. She was known for the quality of her writings and received 6 awards from the Académie Française, including 2 Grand Prizes. Her theatre pieces were played successfully in several places in Paris (l’Odéon, the International Feminist Theatre, the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre) as well as in Brussels, Milan, Moscow,…
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