discussion on the subject of female suffrage (McMillan 179).La Politique NatalisteIn 1919, the same year that the Chamber of Deputies passed a bill of female suffrage, the newly created Ministry of Health gave official recognition to pro-natalist organizations (Prost 39). On July 31, 1920 a law was passed that prescribed one to six months imprisonment or a fine of 100-500 francs if one was found using birth control or passing out literature on birth control (McMillan 189). The culmination of this pro-natalist policy was to be the introduction of the Family Code on the eve of the WWII. By the decreed law of July 29, 1939 the state offered financial inducements to women who fulfilled their maternal role, further negating women to their place in the kitchen and cradle. Louise WeissIn 1930, Louis Weiss, a prominent French journalist, was the last woman to launch a woman's suffrage campaign. She met her efforts with the same apathy and ignorance as earlier campaigns for female suffrage. She notes one experience where, "in 1934 the peasants remained open-mouthed when I spoke to them about the vote, the workers laughed, women in commerce shrugged their shoulders and bourgeois women repulsed me in horror," (McMillan 180). Her attempts to gain female suffrage came at a time in history where turmoil prevailed in the government as the Popular Front took to the streets to demand more socialistic reforms to the government. Worldwide, countries were experiencing economic depression. She took to the streets in protest with those of the Popular Front in order to demand her reforms. She and a group of women chained themselves to the statue at the Place de la Bastille and set up ballot boxes to collect "votes" for women candidates (Scott 165). Louis Weiss was unable to gain enough momentum for her movement before the outbreak of WWII where all public efforts would be turned to the fight against Hitler and the Resistance movement.The Right to V...
