1935-09: (Close to 100 People Attend the Saint-Marc Gathering — the Women Gathering Over the Course of the Day with Close to 100 People Women and Men in Atte…

1935-09: (Close to 100 People Attend the Saint-Marc Gathering — the Women Gathering Over the Course of the Day with Close to 100 People Women and Men in Attendance Listening to Speeches by Various LFAS Members Including Madeleine Sylvain Whose “Warm Sympathetic Persuasive Speech Overcame Apathy and Hesitation” from Those Cautious of the Women’s Politics, Valcin Attesting That Before Leaving the Room Sylvain Won a Lot of Hearts for the Feminist Cause): The women gathered over the course of the day with close to 100 people — women and men — in attendance. They listened to speeches by various LFAS members, including Madeleine Sylvain, whose warm, sympathetic, persuasive speech overcame apathy and hesitation from those cautious of the women’s politics. Valcin attested that before leaving the room, Sylvain won a lot of hearts for the feminist cause — the expansion of the movement depended not on institutional power but on the slow persuasion of presence, the willingness to show up and speak until skepticism gave way.