Marthe Marie Amélie Angèle Simard née Caillaud, later Reid-Simard (6 April 1901, Bordj Menaïel – 28 March 1993), was a Franco-Canadian politician.
Simard was the first French woman to sit in a parliamentary assembly.
In December 1940, she founded the Free France Committee of Quebec.
She was a member of the Legion of Honor. Additionally, she was decorated with the Resistance Medal and the Commemorative Medal for Volunteer Services in Free France.Debré and Bochenek, .p. 303 To commemorate her, the Place Marthe-Simard in the 14th arrondissement of Paris was named after her.
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External links Un Français Libre parmi 52 200 - Marthe Simard La citoyenneté politique des femmes, Assemblée nationale La liberté retrouvée, la souveraineté restaurée - Le vote des femmes, Sénat
Further reading Éric Amyot, Le Québec entre Pétain et de Gaulle, Montréal, Fides, 1999 , lire en ligne [archive]) Jean-Louis Debré, Valérie Bochenek, Ces femmes qui ont réveillé la France, Paris, Arthème Fayard, 2013, pp. 297–304 Jean-Louis Debré, Les Oubliés de la République, Paris, Arthème Fayard, 2008 Frédéric Smith, "La France appelle votre secours". Québec et la France libre, 1940-1945, VLB Éditeur, Montréal, 2012