Tinayre was born on 6 March 1831 in
Issoire,
Puy de Dôme,
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
. Her family were
artisans and members of the republican
bourgeoisie. She ran a private school (
école libre) in Issoire, in a room lent to her by her father, before moving to
Paris. When she was allowed to teach again, she directed
Protestant free schools in
Neuilly,
Bondy and
Noisy-le-Sec. Tinayre published two novels in the 1860s about
peasant families moving to Paris, titled
Un Rêve de femme and
La Marguerite, the second of which was dedicated to the French novelist and
memoirist George Sand. The cooperative joined L'Internationale and the Federal Chamber of Workers' Societies. Under the Commune, she was a member of the Women's Union for the Defense of Paris and the Care of the Wounded. On 27 November 1879, Tinayre received an
amnesty on her sentence. Their collaboration was difficult due to ideological differences. and taught in the schools of the Guise family from 1883 to 1885. == References ==