Bernadette Cattanéo
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25 February 1899
- Trade unionist
- communist activist
- newspaper editor
- magazine co-founder
Bernadette Cattanéo | |
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_-_aout_1936_(cropped_2023).jpg) Cattanéo in 1936 | |
| Born | Bernadette Le Loarer 25 February 1899 Brélévenez, Côtes-d'Armor, France |
| Died | 22 September 1963 (aged 64) La Penne-sur-Huveaune, Bouches-du-Rhône, France |
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| Spouse |
Jean-Baptiste Cattanéo
(m. 1922) |
| Children | 2 |
Bernadette Cattanéo (née Le Loarer; 25 February 1899 – 22 September 1963) was a French trade unionist and communist activist, as well as a newspaper editor and magazine co-founder. She is remembered as the secretary general of the World Committee Against War and Fascism.[1] Cattanéo also held various roles of importance within the Confédération générale du travail unitaire (CGTU) and the French Communist Party (PCF).
Bernadette Le Loarer was born in Brélévenez, Côtes-d'Armor, 25 February 1899. [1] Her parents were Jean Marie Le Loarer, a railwayman, and Marie Ollivier, an illiterate peasant. Her family was Breton-speaking and Catholic, but it was a teacher who awakened Cattaneo to socialist ideas. She trained as a seamstress before going to Paris in 1919 to do several odd jobs. There, she met Jean-Baptiste Cattanéo, who, like her, was a pharmacy employee.[2] They married on 10 October 1922 and had two children.
