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In this article, the author talks about the transformation from the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) to the French Section of the Communist International (SFIC). It mentions that Ludovic-Oscar Frossard, was elected from January 1921 to January 1923, and was replaced until January 1924 by two "co-secretaries", Louis Sellier and Albert Treint. It mentions L. Sellier conducts alone until the following July, before the appointment of Pierre Semard.

In this article, the author talks about the scale, roots, and the history of communism in France. It mentions that a historiographical renewal is at work on the side dealing with issues as diverse and crucial as those of the engagement of women, the relationship with colonial power, the crisis of the militant vocation, the organizations of the communist sphere; and contemporary transformations of working-class neighborhoods.

The article presents a study which looks at the evolution of the promotion and domination of women activists in the local networks of the French Communist Party (PCF) in France from 1944 to the end of the 1970s. The glass ceiling, or the unacknowledged barrier to career advancement, and the feminization of the PCF in the 1970s are mentioned. The authors also discuss women communists as elected officials such as Élise Grappe who became the first female representative in Isère (France) in 1951 and the role of women communists in women's organizations such as the Union for French Women (UFF).

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