Claire Davinroy (née Clémence Valy; 14 October 1897, in Paris – 15 February 1973) was one of the first women to sit in the French Parliament. She was a French Resistance fighter and a member of the Provisional Consultative Assembly between 1944 and 1945. She was awarded the Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with Palme and the Resistance Medal.
Biography Davinroy was a professor of higher primary education in Paris. After 1940, she belonged to a resistance group led by Pierre Brossolette. Interned at Fresnes Prison, Davinroy was deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp on 31 January 1944 and was released on 9 April 1945.Site de la fondation de la Mémoire de la déportation.
After her release she was a delegate to the Provisional Consultative Assembly representing prisoners and deportees.. She sat there from 20 July 1945 to 3 August 1945.Les déléguées à l'Assemblée consultative provisoire. Later, she was Secretary General of the Former Deportees and Internees of the Resistance (ADIR)..
She then became principal of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts..
See also
Women in the French Senate
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