Trotula of Salerno , or Trotula di Ruggiero (or Trota), is an Italian doctor of the Middle Ages, to whom several books on womens health are attributed. Basics of womens medicine Very little is known of the life of Trotula of Salerno, other than that she probably lived in 11th century and that it b
Suzanne Lacore (1875 – 1975) was a French politician. She is one of the first three women to have been part of a French government, in 1936. Leader of the National Committee of Socialist Women Suzanne Lacore was born on May 30, 1875 in Corrèze, into a bourgeois family. After her studies at the tea
Journalist and resistance fighter, Jane Vialle (1906 – 1953) was one of the first black French senators. During her political career, she worked against racism and discrimination, for equality and development in Africa. A childhood in full colonization Daughter of a vili Congolese mother, Thérèse
Landsberg Herrade (between 1125 and 1130 – 1195) was an Alsatian abbess, poetess and encyclopaedist. She composed the Hortus deliciarum , the first encyclopedia made by a woman. Hortus deliciarum From a noble family in Alsace, Herrade de Landsberg was born between 1125 and 1130 in Hohenbourg, on t