Twenty six portraits of well-known women of France, often unknown or forgotten, from 1750 till today. The women involved are: Olympe de Gouges, Georges Sand, Elisa Lemonnier, Marguerite Boucicaut, Marie Louise Jaÿ, Julie-Victoire Daubié, Maria Deraismes, Louise Michel, Madeleine Brès, Blanche Edwards, Augusta Klumpke, Hubertine Auclert, Jeanne Chauvin, Maria Vérone, Marguerite Dilhan, Paule René Pignet, Marguerite Durand, Camille Claudel, Marie Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie, Colette, Louise Weiss, Marthe Simard, Marguerite Yourcenar, Nafissa Sid Cara, Simone Veil.