Draft:Eugénie Cense

Eugénie Cense (also known as Eugénie Ferter-Cense 1879 Saint-Judoce -1955, Saint-Brieuc), was a French Esperantist.

Life
She was a member of the Volapükist movement, Eugénie Cense was one of the pioneers of the French Esperanto movement from 1901,. She was close to Hippolyte Sebert, one of the leaders of the movement. In 1908, she worked at the Central Esperanto Officey, where, she taught Esperanto. On 15 August 1913, she met Louis-Lazare Zamenhof, founder of Esperanto. In 1922, she was secretary of the Society of Friends of Esperanto (whose headquarters were located at her home on rue Lepic).

Eugénie Cense actively participated in Esperanto cultural activities in Paris, regularly acting in plays,, or reciting poetry. The quality of her pronunciation of Esperanto is often praised in the Paris-Esperanto newsletter,. A recording of her voice reciting a poem by Louis Lazare Zamenhof can be listened to on Gallica.

In 1919, Eugénie Cense was one of the founders of the Central Esperanto Library, alongside Hippolyte Sebert, Gabrielle Gérard, Ernest Archdeacon, Gabriel Chavet, Albert Dauphin and Paul Durand. She was elected a member of the Société de linguistique de Paris in March 1922, sponsored by Professors Léon Beaulieux and Paul Boyer.

Eugénie Cense had many links with the European Esperanto movement. On several occasions, the French authorities sent her to international congresses and meetings : Brussels (1910 and 1913) or The Hague (1920).

During the First World War, she worked for the Red Cross. Her links with the German Esperantists would have led to her being monitored by the police,,.

She made many trips to Poland, before the First World War, and again afterwards. In the 1920s, she lived there, giving weekly Esperanto classes with the Polish Academic Society of Esperanto, founded in August 1924,. She lived in Poland until at least 1937, actively participating in Esperanto life.

Eugénie Cense was awarded a gold star for her actions to promote the language at the 1937 International Esperanto Congress.

Works

 * Dette fatale, traduction d'un roman spiritualiste de Lionel Dalsace, Paris, Presses Société Espérantiste, 1910.
 * Annuaire mondial de l'espéranto (années 1912, 1913 et 1914), edited with Hippolyte Sebert and Gabriel Chavet
 * Ora libro de la esperanto-movado [Livre d'or du mouvement espérantiste] 1887-1937, édité avec Vilmos Bleier, Varsovie 1937.
 * Bretonlando [Bretagne], in The Esperanto Monthly (September 1919),