Marie Huot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marie Huot

French writer

Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1846

Place of Birth: Tonnerre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 13-Apr-1930

Profession: writer, poet, journalist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Marie Huot (1846-1930).
French poet, writer, feminist and animal rights activist.
She was also a close friend of the Swedish impressionist painter and Sufi mystic Ivan Agueli. Marie Huot was the wife of Anatole-Théodore-Marie Huot, editor for the leftist Parisian magazine L'Encyclopédie Contemporaine Illustrée. Marie Huot was famous for a number of spectacular activist actions. In 1886 she interrupted a lecture by Louis Pasteur at the Sorbonne University, for using dogs in animal testing. She also once at Collège de France hit the Mauritian scientist Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard over the head with a parasol for having performed a vivisection on a monkey. In the year 1900, she helped the Swedish anarchist Ivan Aguéli in his attack on two matadors at a French bullfight.