Eugénie Collot

Eugénie Collot, (1857-1907), was a French upholsterer, and an anarchist, feminist, and revolutionary syndicalist activist. Born into a working-class family, Collot became an upholsterer and, especially from the 1890s onwards, engaged in several social struggles. She became involved in French feminist and syndicalist circles; for example, she stood as a candidate in elections in 1890, was elected secretary of the upholsterers' union, which she founded, and of the Bourse du travail de Paris, which sent her as a delegate to the Second International's congress in Brussels.

An active anarchist, she played a "significant" role within the anarchist movement in France in the 1890s, notably by taking charge of the management of a number of organisations and events, such as the soup conferences or La Rénovation sociale par le travail ('Social Renovation through Work'), an organisation she founded and where she invited a number of anarchist figures, such as Élisée Reclus and Leo Tolstoy.

Despite her importance to the anarchist movement and other struggles, her memory faded into oblivion after her death.