25023. Erard, C. (2025). L’engagement politique d’une dirigeante de plus d’un demi-siècle à la FFT : Marie-Christine Peltre. Movement & Sport Sciences – Science & Motricité, (127), 5‑15. https://doi.org/10.1051/sm/2025012
This socio-historical (biographical) article is dedicated to the political commitment of Marie-Christine Peltre, a leader of more than half a century (1969–2021) at the French tennis federation. It is based on the collection of two testimonies associated with an analysis of articles in the federal press (the FFT’s Official Journal, Tennis de France, Tennis Magazine, Tennis Info) and the news press (local and national). Emphasizing that his entry into the federation is made on “selective incentive”, he then shows a path that is rooted in a childhood between two worlds (bourgeois and employees), marked by an alleged requirement of volunteering, with female trainers and/or leaders who are role models for her. The political action of this woman is also highlighted through the development of women’s tennis, culture and heritage, tennis at school and sustainable development: all levers in favor of “democratization” a physical practice that took root in France, in the last third of the 19th century, through an English “leisure class” who likes to play lawn-tennis on the beach of Écluse de Dinard, a seaside town where she was born in 1950.