title: Alick-Maud Pledge
text: # Alick-Maud Pledge
  
  Alick-Maud Pledge (1893–1949) was an English folk dance and gymnastics teacher in France.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Alick-Maud Pledge (sometimes written as Maud Alick Pledge) was born in London.
  
  ## Career in France
  
  Pledge moved to France in 1926 following the call of Jaques-Dalcroze, but became soon independent. In the New Education movement, she created the French associations Education and Movement and Friends of the Popular Dance. She popularized the Chapelloise, a folk dance, in France. She influenced Marcelle Albert, Marinette Aristow-Journoud and Jean-Michel Guilcher who carried on with teaching folk dances in France.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Pledge died in 1949, in her mid-fifties. Her gravesite is in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
  
  