sentences:  Nathalie Lemel, a socialist bookbinder, and Élisabeth Dmitrieff, a young Russian exile and member of the Russian section of the First International (IWA), created the "" ("Women's Union for the Defense of Paris and Care of the Injured") on 11 April 1871.The feminist writer André Léo, a friend of Paule Minck, was also active in the Women's Union.The association demanded gender equality, wage equality, right of divorce for women, and right to secular and professional education for girls.