Utilisateur:CoMarengoteacher/Brouillon

Denise Moran was born on september 9th, 1885 in Paris in a Protestant family with Alsatian origins. Her mother was a teacher and then a school headmistress and her father, was employed in a coal factory. Denise Moran spent her childhood in the 11th borough of Paris. At the age of 19, she married Jean Baptiste Joachim Ronzin but he died in 1907. At the end of the 1920s, Denise wrote for several newspapers of Republican lefts and in 1926 when she wrote for the newspapers Le Quotidien, she met Edmond Savineau who became her second husband. She followed him in 1927 to Equatorial Africa where her husband worked in the administration. She participed in the construction of several schools. They both became critical of the pratices of colonization. According to them, the people managing the colonial administration were corrupted, incompetent and cruel. Her husband died in 1929 and she stayed in Equatorial Africa until 1931 to work in the political affairs office. She recounts her experience in Africa in autobiographical novel. She returned to Paris where she became a journalist specialized in humanitarian issues. On October 19th 1937, and May 25th 1938, Denise Moran traveled 13 000km in French Equatorial Africa and during the trip, she wrote 17 reports concerning each of regions she crossed. To collect information on the conditions of women, she questioned natives, European and European countries settled in Equatorial Africa. Many themes were broached conditions of girl’s education, women’s work. At the end of her life Denise Moran probably joined the French resistance. She contributed to a newspaper in L’Humanité, a newspapers against the violence of the Nazi occupying forces in Paris.