author
Charles Marie Joseph Turgeon
1855–1934
A French jurist and scholar of political economy, he wrote across law, social thought, and public debate. His best-known work, the two-volume Le féminisme français, explores women's emancipation in French society at the start of the 20th century.
2 Audiobooks
Le féminisme français I: L'émancipation individuelle et sociale de la femme
by Charles Marie Joseph Turgeon
Le féminisme français II: L'émancipation politique et familiale de la femme
by Charles Marie Joseph Turgeon
About the author
Born in 1855 and died in 1934, Charles Marie Joseph Turgeon was a French legal scholar and writer. Reference works identify him as a professor of law and economics who became a leading figure at the University of Rennes, where he taught the history of economic doctrines and later served as dean of the law faculty.
His writing moved between academic, political, and social questions. Library records and digitized editions confirm that he wrote the two-volume Le féminisme français, a substantial study of women's individual, social, political, and family emancipation in France. He also published work on historical materialism, showing a strong interest in the big ideological debates of his time.
Turgeon seems to have written for readers who wanted careful argument rather than slogans. That makes his work especially interesting today: it offers a window into how questions of rights, society, and modern life were being discussed in France in the early 1900s.