Victoire Léodile Béra (1824-1900). Under the pseudonym André Léo, she was one of the most prominent and politically engaged writers of her time. The author of twenty-two works, including novels and essays, she used from the beginning a clearly feminist perspective and openly critical of classism and the moral and social conventions of the moment. But Léo's activity was not exclusively intellectual: co-founder of the Société de revendication des droits de la femme, she participated in the Paris Commune defending it with arms in hand, and was part of the Bakuninist Alliance for Socialist Democracy (despite the differences that distanced her from Bakunin). Léo always defended feminist and anti-authoritarian positions, and for this reason she is a figure that must be recovered and vindicated.