Valentine de Saint-Point

Who was Valentine de Saint-Point?

Valentine de Saint-Point, born Anna Jeanne Valentine Marianne Glans de Cessiat-Vercell, was a woman of letters and a French artist. She was a writer, poet, painter, playwright, art critic, choreographer, lecturer and journalist. She is primarily known for being the first woman to have written a futurist manifesto, but was also active in Parisian salons, and the associated literary and artistic movements of the Belle Epoque. Her writings and performances of La Métachorie, which demonstrated her theory of "a total fusion of the arts." The later period of her life was dominated by the politics of the Middle East and North Africa.