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Marcelle Devaud

French politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Marcelle Devaud was a French politician. She was a member of the French parliament from 1946 to 1962. She was the first female vice-president of the French senate. She was a Gaullist and advocate for women's rights.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Marcelle Devaud” as french politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Marcelle, Devaud and French.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946, 1962—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Marcelle, Devaud and French providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1946 and 1962.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marcelle Devaud” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.