LCP devotes its Monday evening to the anniversary of women’s right to vote in France. For the latter’s 80th birthday, the documentary “Citoyennes!” retraces the hard battles waged by the French women, until April 21, 1944. A late decision by the “country of human rights”, explained by the two directors.
In two weeks, it will be 80 years since France granted women the right to vote. April 21, 1944, a key date in the history of our country and especially in the fight for equality between men and women. A step forward that seems almost recent, given the richness of France’s political and social history… Why did we wait so long before making this decision, while other countries, like Burma or ‘Azerbaijan, granted this right long before us?
Centenarian women in the spotlight
The authors and directors, Jean-Frédéric Thibault and Stéphanie Thomas, looked into the question and are offering, this Monday evening on LCP, the documentary Citizens! which recounts, in particular, the battles which were fought hard until that day of April 21, 1944. “The hardest part was certainly meeting women who were over 100 years old… Obviously they had to be 21 years old in 1945, when they were able to vote”, confides Stéphanie Thomas, the co-director of the documentary.
“Meeting these three women who were able to tell us how they hit the pavement or not, how they were able to access this right to vote, it was important for us. Meeting them to have a direct testimony,” adds- her at the microphone of Europe 1. The documentary Citizens! will therefore be broadcast this Monday at 8:30 p.m. on LCP and will be followed by a debate on the theme “Right to vote: what have French women done with it?”