Roxane Noat-Notari
Roxane Noat-Notari | |
|---|---|
| Member of the National Council | |
| In office 1963–1983 | |
| Member of the Communal Council | |
| In office 1955–1967 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1913 |
| Died | 27 March 2004 |
Roxane Noat-Notari (1913 – 27 March 2004) was a Monegasque politician. In 1963 she was elected to the National Council, becoming its first female member.
Biography
[edit]Noat-Notari was one of seven children of Dinah and Louis Notari, a writer and poet.
She was elected to the Communal Council in the 1955 municipal elections, and was re-elected in 1958 and 1963.[1] Although women had been allowed to vote in municipal elections since 1945, it was not until 1962 that the franchise was given to women for National Council elections.[2] A member of the National Democratic Union (UND), Noat-Notari was a candidate in the 1963 National Council elections, the first held under universal suffrage. She was elected as the UND won 17 seats, becoming the first woman in the National Council.[2] In the same year she became the founding president of the World Association of Children's Friends.[1] She was re-elected in 1968, when the UND won all 18 seats,[3] and again in 1973 and 1978.[1]
She later served as president of the administrative council of Guides of Monaco, vice-president of the Monegasque Association for the Aid and Protection of Handicapped Children and on the board of directors of the Red Cross of Monaco, as well as being a member of the national commission of UNESCO.[1] She died on 27 March 2004, aged 91.[1]