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Jun 03, 1881 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 15 Jan 1944 (aged 62)
French writer, philanthropist and women's rights activist
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About Valentine Thomson
- Valentine Mathilde Amélie Thomson (3 June 1881 – 15 January 1944) was an influential French journalist, playwright and editor, who was active both in Europe and the United States.
- Daughter of the left-wing politician Gaston Thomson, in 1919 she was a delegate at the Inter-Allied Women's Conference which sought to introduce women's issues to the peace process following the end of the First World War.
- In Paris, in collaboration with her husband, the journalist and screenwriter André Jaeger-Schmidt (1884–1940), she wrote plays which were staged in Paris and the provinces.
- In the late 1920s she moved to the United States where she wrote about international politics for a variety of papers including the New York Times and Harper's Magazine.
- She was also known for the salons she held with prominent figures of her times.
