Marie-Josèphe Paule Julianne le Vigoureux de Kermorvan (30 April 1910 – 20 January 1993), known as Marie Colardeau, was a French feminist and the first female lawyer from the French overseas territory of Réunion.[1]

Biography

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Colardeau was born in 1910 in Saint-Pierre, Réunion, the daughter of Saint-Pierre mayor Charles-Louis-Victor le Vigoureux de Kermorvan. Her family were old nobility from Franche-Comté.[2] She gained her law license in 1929, and in 1930 became the first female lawyer in Réunion.[1] In 1937, she married the politician Fernand Colardeau.[3]

She died in 1993 in Saint-Denis, Réunion, aged 82.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ a b Desmarets, Damien (1997). Les Femmes (in French). Observatoire du développement de la Réunion.
  2. ^ de Magny, Viscount Ludovic (1874). Armorial de la France (in French). Archives de la Noblesse et la Collège Héraldique de France. p. 55. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  3. ^ Patrick O'Reilly, Hébridais: Répertoire bio-bibliographique des Nouvelles-Hébrides, 1957, p.44.
  4. ^ "Fichier des personnes décédées (Décès) - data.gouv.fr". data.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 February 2024.