Marie-Paule Serve
Marie-Paule Serve | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Territorial Assembly | |
| In office 1977–1984 | |
| Constituency | South |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 October 1941 Haiphong, French Indochina |
Marie-Paule Serve (née Charles, born 16 October 1941) was a French New Caledonian politician. She was one of two women elected to the Territorial Assembly of New Caledonia in 1977, the territory's first female legislators.
Biography[edit]
Serve was born in Haiphong in French Indochina in 1941 and was educated at the Faculté Libre de Droit in Toulon.[1] She married Yvau Sevre, with whom she had a daughter. Having moved to New Caledonia, she became president of the Fédération Feminine Calédonienne.[1]
She also became involved in politics and was a Rally for Caledonia candidate in the 1977 elections. Alongside Edwige Antier, she became one of the first two women in the Territorial Assembly.[2] She was re-elected in 1979, serving until the 1984 elections.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Who's who in Oceania, 1980-1981, p175
- ^ Premières femmes élues Congress of New Caledonia