Anne-Léontine Nicolas Amieux

Prename: Anne-Léontine Nicolas
Surname: Amieux
Profession: School principal
Birthday: 06/18/1871
Place of birth: Lyon
Date of death: 1960
Education: 1883–89 girls’ lycée in Lyon and École normale supérieure des jeunes filles de Sèvres; 1892 *agrégation* to teach science; 1898 Promotion scientifique, Sorbonne, Paris, the ninth woman to achieve this in France; 1905/6 Albert Kahn “Autour du Monde” (Around the World) fellowship
Career: 1893–98 teacher of natural sciences at a girls’ lycée in Tournon-sur-Rhône, Ardèche; 1898–1905 teacher at the lycées Lamartine and Victor Hugo, Paris; 1905/6 Albert Kahn fellowship; 1906–13 teacher of mathematics at Lycée Victor Hugo, Paris; 1913–19 founding principal of the girls’ school Lycée Jules Ferry, Paris; 1917 starts the first classes preparing women to compete for entry to the École centrale des arts et manufactures; 1919–36 principal of the École normale supérieure des jeunes filles de Sèvres
Memberships: 1906 “Autour du Monde” club; 1919 founding member of the French Association of University Women (AFFDU); International Federation of University Women (IFUW) Council member; 1933 Chevalière de la Légion d’honneur
Biographical literature: “Amieux (Mlle) (Anne-Léontine-Nicolas),” in *Qui est-ce? Ceux dont on parle* (Paris: Lang, Blanchong et Cie, 1934), 20; Nicole Fouché et al., “Soixante-quinze ans d’histoire de l’AFFDU,” Diplômées 180 (1997): 1–76, esp. 7; Evelyne Diebolt (ed.), *Dictionnaire biographique: Militer au XXe siècle: Femmes, féminismes, églises et société* (Paris: Michel Houdiard, 2009), 32
Links: [papers](http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/leonore_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_98=REF&VALUE_98=c-352517)