Valette, Aline

(1850-1899)

   socialist

   Born in Paris, Aline Valette was a schoolteacher and served as secretary to the newly formed Teacher's Union in 1878. Widowed, she became a writer and published a successful home-management book, La Journée de la petite ménagerè (1883). She was one of the first voluntary labor inspectors in Paris during the 1880s, and became a Socialist, founding with Eugénie pontonie-pierre the Fédération française des sociétés feministes (1892). She was also a member of the national council of the Parti ouvrier français (1893). Valette struggled for both the civil and the political rights of women, while continuing in her conviction that women's ultimate role was as a homemaker.