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Emile Acollas was born in La Châtre and was the son of Pierre Isidore Acollas and Louise Marie Bouché. His father, a lawyer, was one of the founders of the newspaper L'Eclaireur de l'Indre, in 1843, in which George Sand and several local personalities were involved.emile Acollas studied at the college in Bourges before moving to Paris to study law, a discipline he would later teach. During the Second Empire, he participated in the liberal movement.in 1866, he founded a study committee with the aim of reworking civil legislation to include, among other things, equality between men and women. His opposition to the Empire and the fact that he was a supporter of the creation of a democratic Federation of United Europe led to a trial in which he was sentenced to one year in prison. Following this decision, he was exiled to Bern, Switzerland, where he became a professor of French law.a supporter of the Paris Commune, Emile Acollas could not accept his appointment as dean of the law faculty by the Paris Commune in 1871 while in exile. Emile Acollas wrote numerous works on law, in which he notably evoked women's rights, equality between men and women - his ideas made him a precursor -, children's rights, inheritance, guardianship... He died on October 17, 1891 in Asnières in the Hauts-de-Seine.