Lucie Leiciague

Lucie Leiciague
Leiciague in 1921
Born
Lucie Leziagazahar

(1880-12-13)13 December 1880
Saint-Palais, Basses-Pyrénées, France
Died21 May 1962(1962-05-21) (aged 81)
Orsay, Île-de-France, France
OccupationsCommunist activist, politician and writer
EmployerL'Humanité
OrganizationCommunist International
Political party
French Communist Party
French Section of the Workers' International
SpouseCharles Le Gléo (m. 1931)

Lucie Leiciague (née Leziagazahar, married name Le Gléo,[1] 13 December 1880 – 21 May 1962), also known as Lola,[2] was a French communist activist, politician and writer. She was a member of the Central Committee of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1920 to 1924 and served as a representative to the Communist International.

Biography

Leiciague was born on 13 December 1880 in Saint-Palais, Basses-Pyrénées, France.[3][4] Her parents were a carpenter and a housewife. She became a communist activist and writer.[3]

During the Tours Congress, the 18th National Congress of the French Section of the Workers' International (French: Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, SFIO), in December 1920, Leiciague was among members who voted to join the Third International and to create the French Section of the Communist International.[3][5] She was elected as a member of the first Central Committee of the newly formed French Communist Party (PCF),[6][7] serving from 1920 to 1924.[3][5]

With Marcel Cachin and Ludovic-Oscar Frossard, Leiciague signed the motion of the Committee of the Third International for membership in the Communist International.[3]

In December 1921, Leiciague was a representative to the congress of the Communist International held in Marseilles.[8] In April 1922, she was appointed permanent French delegate to the Executive Committee of the Communist International (CCI),[1][3] replacing Louis Sellier, and attended the Communist International congress in Moscow,[3] alongside Lucie Colliard and 10 other delegates.[9][10]

Leiciague spoke at the International about Clara Zetkin's call for women's suffrage, saying that for communist women "parliamentarianism is not an end in itself", but that "the demand for the vote has for it's not object the equality of the sexes (which is impossible under capitalism), but the possession one more weapon in the revolutionary struggle."[11] She was also commissioned alongside Marthe Bigot to write a propaganda pamphlet for women,[12] following a report that the French Communist Party had been slow to recruit women (only 2% of the party's members were women).[13]

Leiciague wrote for L'Humanité newspaper,[14] but broke with the SFIO in 1928,[5][15] and subsequently lost her job at the newspaper in September 1929.[3]

In 1931, Leiciague married Charles Le Gléo in Paris, and together they supported the Austrian Marxist and author Lucien Laurat.[1][3] She continued to write for the left-wing press in France after World War II.[5]

Leiciague died on 21 May 1962 in Orsay, Île-de-France, France, aged 81.[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bahne, Siegried; Humbert-Droz, Jules (1970). Archives de Jules Humbert-Droz, Volume I: Vol I: Origines et débuts des partis communistes des pays latins 1919-1923 (in French). D. Reidel. p. 111. ISBN 978-90-277-0153-4.
  2. ↑ Mazuy, Rachel (2015). "Voyages, amours et luttes des classes:Les Français en Russie soviétique dans l'entre-deux-guerres". Aden (in French). 14 (1): 31–49. doi:10.3917/aden.014.0031. ISSN 1638-9867.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Panné, Jean-Louise (24 November 2010). "LEICIAGUE Lucie [LEICIAGUECAHAR Jeanne, dite]". Maitron (in French). Retrieved 19 June 2026.
  4. 1 2 Agosti, Aldo (2001). Komintern: l'histoire et les hommes : dictionnaire biographique de l'Internationale communiste en France, en Belgique, au Luxembourg, en Suisse et à Moscou (1919-1943) (in French). Editions de l'Atelier. p. 388. ISBN 978-2-7082-3506-9.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Comintern Glossary". Marxists.org. Retrieved 20 June 2026.
  6. ↑ Ripoteau, Eva (2 June 2025). Lutte des femmes pour le communisme, lutte communiste pour les femmes ? L’Ouvrière, premier journal des femmes communistes (1922-1935) (PhD thesis) (in French). Ecole nationale des chartes.
  7. ↑ Salles, Iza (2005). Um cadáver ao sol: a história do operário brasileiro que desafiou Moscow e o PCB (in Brazilian Portuguese). Ediouro. p. 99. ISBN 978-85-00-01620-2.
  8. ↑ McIlroy, John; Campbell, Alan (2005). "The British and French Representatives to the Communist International, 1920–1939: A Comparative Survey". International Review of Social History. 50 (2): 203–240. doi:10.1017/S0020859005001938. ISSN 1469-512X.
  9. ↑ Morizet, André (1922). Chez Lénine et Trotski, Moscou 1921: préf. de Léon Trotski. Documents photographiques inédits (in French). La Renaissance du livre. p. 180.
  10. ↑ Elleinstein, Jean (1984). Histoire mondiale des socialismes: 1914-1928 (in French). Ed. des Lilas. p. 198. ISBN 978-2-200-37058-9.
  11. ↑ Dyakonova, Daria; Taber, Michael, eds. (14 November 2022). The Communist Women’s Movement, 1920-1922: Proceedings, Resolutions, and Reports. BRILL. pp. 377–378. ISBN 978-90-04-52656-3.
  12. ↑ Die Kommunistische Fraueninternationale (in German). Vol. 1. VTK-Verlag. 1983. p. 101.
  13. ↑ Fauré, Christine (2 June 2004). Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women. Routledge. p. 432. ISBN 978-1-135-45691-7.
  14. ↑ Cachin, Marcel; Candar, Gilles (1993). Carnets 1906 - 1947 (in French). CNRS Ed. p. 35. ISBN 978-2-271-05100-4.
  15. ↑ Est & ouest (in French). Vol. 31. 1979. p. 78.
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