Flora Tristan

Flora Tristan was born on 7 April 1803, the daughter of Mariano Tristán y Moscoso, a naval officer born in Arequipa, and of Anne-Pierre Laisnay, a Parisian woman who had emigrated to Spain. Their marriage, celebrated by a refractory priest, was never regularised: when the father died in 1807, the mother could not assert her rights. A colourist at the workshop of André Chazal's brother, she married André at seventeen, left him in 1825 and lived under assumed names until the separation of 1838. She then travelled across France calling on workers to unite, and died in Bordeaux on 14 November 1844. Paul Gauguin is her grandson.

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