Antoinette Quinche

Antoinette Quinche (1896–1979) was a Swiss feminist and politician (Free Democratic Party of Switzerland). She was president of the Schweizerische Aktionskomitee für Frauenstimmrecht (The Swiss women suffrage union) from 1932 to 1959.

In 1952, she and 1,414 other disputants from her community demanded to be entered into the voters' register. With the argument that the cantonal constitution at that time did not explicitly exclude women's voting rights, they went with their demand before the Federal Court. Again as in 1923, they were rejected by reference to Gewohnheitsrecht (customary law).

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• Regula Ludi: Quinche, Antoinette im Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz, 2011
• Gazette de Lausanne, 19. Mai 1979
• Pionnières et créatrices en Suisse romande, 2004, S. 312-318