Louise Van Den Plas And The "Feminisme Chretien De Belgique": The catholic feminist movement in Belgium owes a huge debt to Louise Van den Plas (1877-1968), who actually launched that movement in 1902, and started in 1905 the publication of the paper Le Féminisme chrétien de Belgique. The belgian movement felt strongly the influence of the French feminism of Marie Maugeret and Marie Duclos. Even so, it is much more politically minded, much more related to social and economic realities.