Sylvie Pétiaux

Sylvie Pétiaux Flammarion
(age 26)
Born
Sylvie Pétiaux-Hugo

November 28, 1836
DiedFebruary 23, 1919
Other namesSylvio Hugo (pen name)
Occupations
  • feminist
  • pacifist
  • writer
Spouses
  • Esprit Mathieu
    (m. 1859; died 1873)
  • (m. 1874)
AwardsPrix Jules Janssen (1902)

Sylvie Pétiaux (née, Pétiaux-Hugo; after first marriage, Mathieu; after second marriage, Flammarion; pen name, Sylvio Hugo; November 28, 1836 – February 23, 1919) was a French feminist and pacifist. She was the wife of the astronomer, Camille Flammarion, and collaborator with him in much of his astronomical work. She was a Prix Jules Janssen laureate in 1902.