Marcelle Tiard

{{Short description|French Esperantist (1861–1932)}} thumb|Marcelle Tiard '''Marcelle Tiard''' (June 18, 1861 - June 1, 1932) was a French Esperantist.

==Biography== Marcelle Tiard was born on June 18, 1861, in Paris.<ref name="2:frwp">{{cite web |title=Enciklopedio de Esperanto (T) |url=http://www.eventoj.hu/steb/gxenerala_naturscienco/enciklopedio-1/encikl-t.htm |website=www.eventoj.hu |access-date=26 January 2023 |language=eo}}</ref> thumb|Marcelle Tiard with the Algiers group in 1913. She learned Esperanto in 1903,<ref name="2:frwp" /> before teaching it to the blind.<ref name="3:frwp">{{cite web |first=Henri |last=Masson |date=24 November 2013 |title=(FR) — Portraits de femmes sans frontières |url=http://www.ipernity.com/blog/32119/612103?lg=fr |website=ipernity |access-date=26 January 2023 |language=fr}}</ref> She is known to the {{ill|Adresaro de la Esperantistoj|eo}} under the number 11420. Tiard presided over the Esperanto group of Nice and the Federation of Provence.<ref name="4:frwp">{{cite web |last1=Masson |first1=Henri |title=# (EO+FR) Twitter-agado por la Internacia Virina Tago 2012 (unua sekcio) |url=http://www.ipernity.com/blog/32119/311874?lg=fr |website=ipernity |access-date=26 January 2023 |language=fr |date=9 March 2011}}</ref> She founded and presided over the Esperantist group of Algiers.<ref name="5:frwp">{{cite journal |title=Chronique Algerienne |journal=Annales africaines |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5704858w |via=Gallica |access-date=26 January 2023 |language=fr |date=29 February 1920}}</ref><ref name="6:frwp">{{cite web |title=Bulletin de l'Idée française à l'étranger |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6557866g |website=Gallica |publisher=Association nationale pour la defense des idées françaises a l'étranger |access-date=26 January 2023 |language=fr |date=2 January 1917}}</ref> In 1929, while in Budapest for the World Esperanto Congress, she co-founded the {{ill|Unuiĝo de Esperantistaj Virinoj|eo}} (Union of Esperantist Women) whose aim was to "sensitize women's, feminist and pacifist leagues to Esperanto". She was president of this union for some time<ref name="3:frwp" /> and provided moral and financial support.<ref name="7:frwp">{{cite web |title=Enciklopedio de Esperanto - ökény Lajos, Bleier V, Ŝirjaev Ivan - страница 31 - чтение книги бесплатно |url=https://nemaloknig.net/read-353916/?page=31 |website=nemaloknig.net |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref>

Marcelle Tiard died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, June 1, 1932.<ref name="1:frwp">{{cite web |title=1E_NUM_NEU_D1932 - 1932 - 01/01/1932 - 31/12/1932 Démo |url=https://archives.hauts-de-seine.fr/ark:/74903/vtacfe798f83ad7cbe7/dao/0/1?id=https%3A%2F%2Farchives.hauts-de-seine.fr%2Fark%3A%2F74903%2Fvtacfe798f83ad7cbe7%2Fcanvas%2F0%2F1 |website=Archives départementales des Hauts-de-Seine |access-date=26 January 2023 |language=fr-fr}}</ref>

==See also== * List of Esperanto speakers

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