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1855–1934
A French legal scholar and public intellectual of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he wrote about social questions with unusual directness. He is especially remembered for work on feminism and women's social emancipation in France.

by Charles Marie Joseph Turgeon

by Charles Marie Joseph Turgeon
Born in 1855 and died in 1934, Charles Marie Joseph Turgeon was a French writer and jurist whose published work moved between law, politics, and social debate. Library and catalog records identify him as the author of Le féminisme français, a substantial study of women's individual and social emancipation in France.
Evidence from French scholarly references also links him to the Faculty of Law in Rennes, where he served as dean. That mix of academic law and public commentary helps explain the tone of his writing: learned, but aimed at real civic questions rather than abstract theory alone.
Today, Turgeon is most likely to interest listeners and readers curious about how questions of gender, rights, and modern society were being argued in France around the turn of the 20th century.