Beatrice Bourges
Béatrice Bourges, born Béatrice Morel on 18 October 1960 in Algeria, is a French management consultant and anti-gay marriage activist. She is a chevalière de la Legion d'Honneur and describes herself as the spokeswoman for Printemps Français ("French Spring"), a pressure group advocating civil disobedience and passive resistance to bring about the end of same-sex marriage in France. In 2013, she was described by Manuel Valls, then the French Minister of the Interior, as "the most dangerous woman in France."
Béatrice Marie Bourges | |
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Béatrice Bourges at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, 26 June 2013 | |
| Born | Béatrice Marie Morel October 18, 1960 |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Management consultant and activist |
She is a founding member of La Manif pour tous, a less confrontational anti-gay marriage organization, from which she was excluded in 2013. She argues that gay marriage is a product of an American-led international programme to undermine the concept of gender which she describes as "the fundamental building blocks of humanity."
She is a Catholic mother of two, and has divorced and remarried.