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Alice Milliat (1884-1957) was a French sports activist. She played played a major role in promoting and developing women's sport women's sport in the early 20th century, seeing sport as a lever for women's emancipation a lever for women's emancipation, striving for gender equality and even and even encouraged sportswomen to campaign for women's right to vote. right to vote. President of the Fémina Sport club in 1915, she was one of the founders of the founders of the Fédération des sociétés féminines sportives de France in 1917, becoming its president in 1919. She campaigned for women's participation in the Olympic Games, and when the IOC refused decided to organize the Games herself. Sunday August 20, 1922, 20,000 people crowded into the stands of the Pershing Stadium in the in the Bois de Vincennes, to witness the first official competition based on the Olympic model. The success of the second edition, in Sweden Sweden in 1926, the IOC finally authorized women to take part in official official athletics events at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Amsterdam. By 1930, a wave of conservatism had overtaken the women's women's emancipation movement at work since the 1920. While the Games were a real success and the FSFI affiliated countries, the international adventure had to come to a halt stop after 1934, due to a lack of resources and government support. Alice Milliat, then aged 52, retired from the public eye. No newspaper mentioned her death in Paris on May 19, 1957. Even her name was not on her tombstone in the Nantes cemetery until 2019. As a symbol, since March 8, 2021, a statue of Alice Milliat stands in the hall of the National Olympic Committee in Paris, alongside alongside that of Pierre de Coubertin. Eric Florand The philatelic document shows a portrait of Alice Milliat rowing rowing, and athletes (American team) parading at the opening of the 1st women's games women's games organized by Alice Milliat at Pershing stadium.
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Timbre (héliogravure) : création Eloïse Oddos, photo akg-images (portrait), d'ap. photo agence Rol (javelot), DR. Document philatélique : création Eloïse Oddos, d’ap. photos Agence Rol (portrait), akg-images (aviron), Maurice-Louis Branger / Roger-Viollet (athlètes). Texte : Eric Florand.
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Commercialisation start date
May 6, 2024
Commercialisation end date
May 31, 2025
Adherence type
None
Printing technique
Offset
Number per sheet
1
Permanent value
Face value
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Philatelic charter family
group.
Official release date
May 6, 2024
Stamp format
210 x 297 mm
author
ODDOS Éloise
Product number
2124515
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