Career
One of the first two women to gain a doctorate in France, and the first to do so in philosophy, Zanta "was an intellectual celebrity in her day, active in journalism and in the feminist movement of the 1920s."
Zanta was born in Mâconsultant She never secured a position in higher education, and became a journalist and writer, publishing several novels. She maintained a correspondence with Teilhard de Chardin.
Simone de Beauvoir remembered being inspired by her example as a woman philosopher.