 In the run-up to the legislative elections of 1914 Rauze, Hélène Brion and Marguerite Martin left the moderate "Union franchise pour le Suffrage des Femmes" (UFSF) and formed the "Ligue nationale pour le Vote des Femmes" (National League for Women's Votes), a militant suffrage society.The league attracted socialist women who disagreed with Saumoneau's hostile stance against bourgeois feminism such as Judith Ducret-Metsu, elected president, and Fabienne Tisserand, elected secretary-general.It was also supported by feminists such as Marguerite Durand, Maria Vérone, Madeleine Pelletier, Séverine and Nelly Roussel.