Marie Bonnet

Prename: Marie
Surname: Bonnet
Birthday: 01/19/1874
Place of birth: Montpellier
Date of death: 03/29/1960
Place of death: Montpellier
Education: University studies (German and French) in Paris
Career: 1901 establishes the “Maison de l’étudiante” following the American model, a settlement for women students in her apartment in Paris, from 1908 “Maison d’étudiante” on Boulevard Raspail
Memberships: 1920 founding member of the French Association of University Women (AFFDU) and first general secretary; 1933 Chevalière de la Légion d’honneur
Biographical literature: Renée Gérard and Nicole Fouché, “Soixante-quinze ans d’histoire de l’AFFDU,” *Diplômées* 180 (1997): 1–76, esp. 14; Evelyne Diebolt (ed.), *Dictionnaire biographique: Militer au XXe siècle: Femmes, féminismes, églises et société* (Paris: Michel Houdiard, 2009), 61–2