French author, journalist, feminist activist and European politician
Louise Weiss (25 January 1893 – 26 May 1983) was a French author, journalist, feminist, and European politician. Life. Born in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Louise Weiss came from a cosmopolitan family of Alsace. Her father, Paul Louis Weiss (1867-1945), a mining engineer, was a distinguished Alsatian Protestant from La Petite-Pierre. The ancestors of her Jewish mother, Jeanne Félicie Javal (1871-1956), originated from the small Alsatian town of Seppois-le-Bas. Her maternal grandfather was Louis Émile Javal.
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Louise Weiss (25 January 1893 – 26 May 1983) was a French author, journalist, feminist, and European politician. Life. Born in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Louise Weiss came from a cosmopolitan family of Alsace. Her father, Paul Louis Weiss (1867-1945), a mining engineer, was a distinguished Alsatian Protestant from La Petite-Pierre. The ancestors of her Jewish mother, Jeanne Félicie Javal (1871-1956), originated from the small Alsatian town of Seppois-le-Bas. Her maternal grandfather was Louis Émile Javal.
