Maria Deraismes (17 August 1828 – 6 February 1894) was a French author, Freemason, and major pioneering force for women's rights. Born in Paris, Maria...

January 1882, Maria Deraismes was initiated into Freemasonry in Loge Libre Penseurs (Freethinkers Lodge), in Le Pecq, just outside Paris. Deraismes was a well...

distinguished the names of the degrees from those of male masonry. Maria Deraismes was initiated into Freemasonry in 1882, then resigned to allow her...

Droit des Femmes was a French women's rights organization, founded by Maria Deraismes and Léon Richer in 1870. It was the first women's rights organization...

she successfully showed at the Salons. Furthermore, the art critic Maria Deraismes championed Gonzalés for producing paintings which challenged the way...

edited by Léon Richer, and in the early days supported financially by Maria Deraismes. The newspaper supported many women's causes, but always avoided directly...

painter, sculptor Léo Delibes (1836–1891), composer of Romantic music Maria Deraismes (1828–1894), social reformer, feminist Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1808–1876)...

first mixed-gender Masonic Order, Le Droit Humain. Maria Deraismes was her sister. Anna Féresse-Deraismes was born in Paris, October 1, 1821. She came from...

Paris, France, where it was founded in 1893 by Georges Martin and Maria Deraismes. The Order is founded on the ancient teachings and traditions of Freemasonry...

Geneviève de Brunelle, counter-revolutionary Sophie de Condorcet, feminist Maria Deraismes, feminist Camille Drevet, anti-colonialist, feminist and pacifist activist...