Acting
Émilie Busquant
- Born
- Mar 3, 1901 · Aged 51
- Died
- Jan 2, 1953
- Place of birth
- Neuves-Maisons, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
- Gender
- Female
- Movie credits
- 2
- TV credits
- 0
Also known as (5)
- إميلي بوسكان
- Эмили Бускант
- 埃米莉·布斯奎特
- Emilie Messali
- Émilie Busquant-Messali
Biography
Émilie Busquant (Arabic: إميلي بوسكان), born March 3, 1901, in Neuves-Maisons, Lorraine, and died October 2, 1953, in Algiers, was a French-Algerian anarcho-syndicalist, feminist, and anti-colonial activist. Born into a working-class family of nine children, she grew up in an environment steeped in social struggles: her father, a steelworker and union member, introduced her to libertarian ideas and political activism at a very young age. After moving to Paris in the early 1920s, she worked in a department store where she met Messali Hadj, the future founder of modern Algerian nationalism.…
