Émilie Busquant

Biography

Émilie Busquant (Arabic: إميلي بوسكان), born March 3, 1901, in Neuves-Maisons, Lorraine, and died October 2, 1953, in Algiers, was a French-Algerian anarcho-syndicalist, feminist, and anti-colonial activist. Born into a working-class family of nine children, she grew up in an environment steeped in social struggles: her father, a…