Léonie La Fontaine is a Belgian activist in the feminist.

This feminism appears in a political climate, where suffrage and the right to vote are limited to men.

1948, when women won the right to vote in legislative elections.

Charity, prostitution, women’s work are the central subjects of its commitment.

Léonie lives in a bourgeois environment where her father Henri La Fontaine and her mother, Louise Philips are attentive to the debates in Belgian society.

It was within the ‘Ligue du droit des femmes’ created in 1892 that Léonie took her first steps in the feminist movement.

Engaged alongside her brother in the creation of the International Office of Bibliography, Léonie collaborates in this knowledge organization which puts forward a documentation office devoted to women in collaboration with the ICW (International Council of Women).

In 1924 she created the Belgian section of the International Women’s League for Peace and Freedom.

From now on, she is a wise man in the pacifist and feminist movement which welcomes new and young activists.

In January 1949, she died when women could go to the polls for the first time, in March of the same year.