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Women’s right to vote — The ordinance granting women the vote, 1944
“Women are electors and eligible under the same conditions as men”: the ordinance, signed by de Gaulle before the Landings themselves, repaired a century’s delay — Frenchwomen voted for the first time in the municipal elections of 29 April 1945. (Editorial synthesis)
Women’s right to vote took place on 21 April 1944. (source: Assemblée nationale)
Women’s right to vote took place in Algiers. (source: Sénat)
Women’s right to vote ended in women made electors and eligible under the same conditions as men. (source: Assemblée nationale)
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