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France's pioneering women's rights minister Yvette Roudy dies aged 97

France Aurore Bergé CHRISTIAN HARTMANN François Hollande François Mitterrand
Yvette Roudy (right) with French film director Agnes Varda on 17 November, 1981, shortly after being appointed France’s minister for women’s rights.
Yvette Roudy (right) with French film director Agnes Varda on 17 November, 1981, shortly after being appointed France’s minister for women’s rights. ASSOCIATED PRESS - Herve Merliac

Yvette Roudy, France's first women's rights minister and a leading figure in the country's feminist movement, has died at the age of 97.

Roudy died on Tuesday in a medical care facility in southern France, where she had lived for the past three years, her nephew Jean-Pierre Saldou told the French news agency AFP.

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