Léontine Zanta
Léontine Zanta (14 February 1872 – 15 June 1942) was a French philosopher, feminist and novelist. One of the first two women to gain a doctorate in France, and the first to do so in philosophy, Zanta "was an intellectual celebrity in her day, active in journalism and in the feminist movement of the 1920s."[1]
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Life
Zanta was born in Mâcon. Her doctoral thesis, defended in May 1914, was on the 16th-century revival of Stoicism. She never secured a position in higher education, and became a journalist and writer, publishing several novels.[1]
She maintained a correspondence with Teilhard de Chardin.[2]
In the late 1920s she received the Legion of Honour. Simone de Beauvoir remembered being inspired by her example as a woman philosopher.[1]
Works
- La renaissance du stoïcisme au XVIe siècle, 1914.
- (ed. with intro.) La traduction française du manuel d'Epictète d'André de Rivaudeau au XVIe siècle, 1914.
- Psychologie du féminisme, 1922
- La part du feu, 1927
- Sainte-Odile, 1931
References
Further reading
- Robert Garric, Introduction, in Teilhard de Chardin, Letters to Léontine Zanta, trans. Bernard Wall, London: Collins, 1969.
- Henri Maleprade, Léontine Zanta, vertueuse aventurière du féminisme, Paris: Rive droite, 1997.
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