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Marguerite Durand (1864–1936) was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette. In 1888, she gave up her career in the theatre to marry an up-and-coming young lawyer, Georges Laguerre. A friend and follower of the politically ambitious army general Georges Ernest Boulanger, her husband introduced her to the world of radical populist politics and involved her in writing pamphlets for the Boulangist movement. Her newspaper, La Fronde, was founded in 1897 to pick up where Hubertine Auclert's La Citoyenne left off. She had a pet lion, and her collected papers are now housed in the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand in Paris. This photograph of Durand was taken in 1910.Photograph credit: Agence Rol; restored by Adam Cuerden