Tuesday 27 August 2013

We want ladies to be buried in the Pantheon

Feminist groups have been protesting that only two ladies have been buried in the Pantheon. Around one hundred women and a dozen men gathered outside the Pantheon mausoleum in Paris on Monday to demonstrate in favour of interring more women in the prestigious sanctuary, which is home to the remains of the country’s most treasured national figures. The list below is one favoured by the feminists for the government to consider. 
1. Olympe de Gouges, feminist pioneer (1748-1793).
2. Solitude, Guadeloupian freedom fighter (1772-1802).
3. Louise Michel, revolutionary (1830-1905).
4. Germaine Tillion, ethnologist and resistant (1907-2008).
5. Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher (1908-1986).

I certainly think in the future great women should take their place beside men but can see how historically men have been chosen.
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