Beatrice Bourges

Béatrice Bourges, born Béatrice Morel on 18 October 1960 in Algeria, is a French management consultant and anti-gay marriage activist.^[1] She is a chevalière de la Legion d'Honneur^[2] and describes herself as the spokeswoman for Printemps Français ("French Spring"), a pressure group advocating civil disobedience and passive resistance to bring about the end of same-sex marriage in France.^[3] In 2013, she was described by Manuel Valls, then the French Minister of the Interior, as "the most dangerous woman in France."^[3]

Béatrice Marie Bourges
Béatrice Bourges at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, 26 June 2013
Born	Béatrice Marie Morel (1960-10-18) October 18, 1960 (age 64)
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Management consultant and activist

She is a founding member of La Manif pour tous,^[4] a less confrontational anti-gay marriage organization, from which she was excluded in 2013.^[5] She argues that gay marriage is a product of an American-led international programme to undermine the concept of gender which she describes as "the fundamental building blocks of humanity."^[3]

She is a Catholic mother of two, and has divorced and remarried.^[3]