The lawyer and feminist figure Gisèle Halimi died on Tuesday, her family announced. The one who had dedicated her life to the cause of women and the right to abortion died the day after her 93rd birthday.
"She died in serenity, in Paris", told AFP one of her three sons, Emmanuel Faux, believing that his mother had "had a good life".
Born on July 27 in 1927 in La Goulette, near Tunis, she campaigned for the independence of Tunisia and Algeria. In 1971, she had been a signatory of the Manifesto of the 343, those hundreds of women who claimed to have had an abortion and demanded free access to contraception.
She was elected member of the fourth constituency of Isère from 1981 to 1984, sitting as related to the socialist group.
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