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Alice Josephine Marie Milliat

Alice Josephine Marie Milliat

Sports organizer and women's athletics advocate

FranceBorn 1884 · Died 1957activistFemina SportFederation des Societes Feminines Sportives de FranceFederation Sportive Feminine Internationale
53
MIXED

of 100 · stable trend · Some good traits but inconsistent

Standing

53/100

Raw Score

44/85

Confidence

65%

Evidence

Medium-high

About

Alice Milliat was a French sports administrator who organized women's sport nationally and internationally, founded the FSFI, and staged the Women's World Games to challenge exclusion from Olympic athletics.

Her public record shows unusually persistent social-care and resilience signals: institution-building, pressure on male-run sport bodies, and measurable openings for women athletes. The record is much thinner on explicit faith, worship, family aid, or private charity, so the profile is kept under review.

Five Pillars

Pillar scores (0–100%)

Core Worldview20%(5/25)
Contribution to Others67%(20/30)
Personal Discipline20%(2/10)
Reliability80%(4/5)
Stability Under Pressure87%(13/15)

Strong observable justice-and-access work, resilient under institutional pressure, with low confidence on private belief and worship evidence.

Goodness over time

Starts at 100 at birth, natural decay after accountability age, timeline events adjust the trajectory.

17 Criteria Scores

Individual item scores (0–5) with evidence notes

Core Worldview

Belief in god1/5

No clear public evidence of theistic commitment found in reviewed sources.

Belief in accountability last day1/5

No clear public evidence of eschatological accountability found.

Belief in unseen order1/5

No clear public evidence of explicit unseen-order belief found.

Belief in revealed guidance1/5

No clear public evidence of scripture-guided life found.

Belief in prophets as examples1/5

No clear public evidence of prophetic-example framing found.

Contribution to Others

Helps relatives1/5

No meaningful public evidence on family support.

Helps orphans or unsupported young people4/5

Her sport structures expanded opportunity for young women athletes.

Helps the poor or stuck3/5

She challenged exclusion affecting women broadly, though poverty-specific relief is not central in sources.

Helps travelers strangers or cut off people4/5

International competitions connected women athletes across national barriers.

Helps people who ask directly3/5

Public advocacy responded to women athletes' exclusion, though direct-request evidence is limited.

Helps free people from constraint5/5

Her core work attacked structural constraints on women in elite sport.

Personal Discipline

Prays consistently1/5

No reliable public evidence of regular worship practice found.

Gives obligatory charity1/5

No reliable public evidence of religiously disciplined charity found.

Reliability

Keeps promises agreements contracts commitments and clear communication4/5

Long institutional service and negotiations show strong follow-through, with limited private-contract evidence.

Stability Under Pressure

Patient during financial difficulty3/5

Economic pressure contributed to women's sport setbacks; her own financial conduct is not well documented.

Patient during personal hardship5/5

She sustained work for decades despite marginalization and later obscurity.

Patient during conflict pressure fear or battlefield moments5/5

She persisted under direct institutional opposition from powerful sport bodies.

Timeline

Key events and documented turning points

1915

Became president of Femina Sport

Milliat became a leading administrator in one of France's early women's sports clubs.

Built a platform for organized women's sport leadership.

medium
1917

Helped form French women's sport federation

Femina Sport merged with other clubs into the FSFSF, with Milliat later serving as president.

Created national infrastructure for women's sport.

high
1921

Founded the FSFI

In response to resistance to women's athletics, Milliat founded the Federation Sportive Feminine Internationale.

Established independent international governance for women's sport.

very_high
1922

Staged the 1922 Women's Olympic Games in Paris

The FSFI held a major international women's athletics event in Paris with athletes from several countries and multiple world-record performances.

Demonstrated elite women's athletic capacity and pressured Olympic authorities.

very_high
1926

Pressure contributed to Olympic women's athletics decision

After FSFI success, the IAAF Congress approved adding women's track and field to the 1928 Olympic programme, though with limits.

A partial but historic opening in Olympic athletics.

very_high
1934

Expanded Women's World Games through Prague and London

The Women's World Games continued in 1930 and 1934, broadening international participation and keeping pressure on Olympic sport.

Sustained a transnational platform before absorption into official athletics structures.

high
1936

FSFI ceased as IAAF gained control

By 1936 the FSFI and Women's World Games ceased after international athletics authorities gained near-full control of women's athletics.

Independent governance was lost, but women's athletics had become harder to exclude.

medium

Pressure Tests

Behavior under crisis or scrutiny

Resistance from IOC, IAAF, and male-run national federations

1921

Women's athletics was excluded or tightly controlled by male-led sport institutions.

Response: Founded and led independent women's sport bodies and staged international competitions.

positive

Limited Olympic inclusion after pressure campaign

1928

Women's athletics entered the Olympics with only five events, far fewer than men's events.

Response: Continued Women's World Games and pressed for fuller inclusion.

mixed

Loss of independent women's athletics governance

1936

The FSFI ceased after international athletics authorities absorbed control of women's athletics.

Response: Her independent structure ended, but the pressure had already changed Olympic athletics.

mixed

Behavioral Patterns

Positive

  • Organized durable institutions rather than one-off events

Concerns

  • Sparse evidence on private spiritual practice and charitable giving

Evidence Quality

4

Strong

3

Medium

1

Weak

Overall: medium-high

This record evaluates observable public evidence, not hidden intention, spiritual state, or salvation.