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Charles Marie Joseph Turgeon
1855–1934
A French jurist and economics professor, he wrote on law, political economy, and social questions at a time when debates about women's rights were reshaping public life in France. His best-known books, Le féminisme français, explore women's individual, social, political, and family emancipation with the seriousness of a legal scholar and the curiosity of a public thinker.
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 Mortagne-au-Perche in 1855, Charles Marie Joseph Turgeon built his career in French higher education and public law. Scholarly records describe him as a professor of law and economics who taught at the Faculty of Law in Aix-en-Provence before spending most of his career at the University of Rennes, where he became professor of the history of economic doctrines and later dean of the law faculty.
His writing ranged across economics, history, and social debate. Library and catalog sources connect his name with works on value, historical materialism, and especially Le féminisme français, a substantial study published in two volumes on women's emancipation in French society. That combination of legal training and social analysis gives his work a distinctive voice: reflective, argumentative, and deeply engaged with the political questions of his era.
Turgeon died in 1934. Though not widely known today outside specialist circles, he remains an interesting figure for readers who want to hear how a French scholar of the late 19th and early 20th centuries thought about economics, institutions, and the changing place of women in modern society.