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

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 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...

and

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...

. 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.Droit de vote des femmes: « pas un combat féministe »
Monaco Hebdo, 23 January 2013 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. In the same year she became the founding president of the

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. She was re-elected in

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, when the UND won all 18 seats,Monaco
IPU and again in

1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...

and

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

. 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

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, as well as being a member of the national commission of

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. She died on 27 March 2004, aged 91.Hommage a la memoire de Madame Roxane Noat-Notari, ancien conseiller national
Journal de Monaco, 11 August 2006

References

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