Émilie Busquant
Acting
March 3, 1901
Died January 2, 1953 (51 years old)
Neuves-Maisons, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
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Biography
Émilie Busquant (Arabic: إميلي بوسكان), born March 3, 1901, in Neuves-Maisons, Lorraine, and died October 2, 1953, in Algiers, was a French-Algerian anarcho-syndicalist, feminist, and anti-colonial activist. Born into a working-class family of nine children, she grew up in an environment steeped in social struggles: her father, a steelworker and union member, introduced her to libertarian ideas and political activism at a very young age. After moving to Paris in the early 1920s, she worked in a...
