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In 2000, Clerc founded the Maison des Femmes in
Montreuil, dedicated to assisting women who had faced violence to re-integrate into normal life. She went on to establish a self-managed retirement home in 2007. The Maison des Babayagas provided facilities for elderly women, encouraging them to live
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In the 1960s, she worked in a department store. She took part in demonstrations against the wars in
Indochina and Algeria and became an activist in favour of legalized abortions as a member of the MLAC. On obtaining a divorce in 1969, she bought a small apartment in Montreuil where she performed
38:. A member of the Movement for Freedom of Abortion and Birth Control (Mouvement pour la liberté de l'avortement et de la contraception, MLAC), she performed clandestines abortions for women in difficulty in her small Montreuil apartment until 1975 when abortions were legalized under the
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Université des Savoirs sur la Vieillesse (UNISAVIE) was the first of its kind.
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