During the 1930s, she was in charge of the in Catalonia alongside . In 1933, she assumed the secretariat of the executive committee of the Social Education Congress. That same year, she became part of the executive committee of the Organizing Committee of the Left Women's Day. She also signed the Manifesto to the women of Catalonia, in July 1934, and, the following year, the intellectual Manifesto in favor of freedom, against fascism, and in favor of the creation of the Action Front for Defense of Culture. She assumed the presidency of the Lyceum Club of Barcelona in 1936, and the vice presidency of the executive committee of the Union of Women of Catalonia. She was part of the Second New Unified School Council. At the proposal of this body, she chaired the Adaptation Commission of the teaching staff of the Generalitat's technical bodies to the needs of the war. She was also general secretary of La Dona a la Reraguarda, section of the Propaganda Commissariat of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Baldó was a supporter of Republicanism in Spain. She was a member of and an activist for the Republican Left of Catalonia. At the end of the Civil War, in 1939, Baldó went into exile in Toulouse, France, with her second husband, Lluís Torres Ullastres. In the old quarter, with other intellectuals and republican exiles such as , , Antoni Rovira i Virgili, and Pompeu Fabra, they quickly organized to continue the intellectual training of their children. Baldó, with the collaboration of her husband, directed the residence of exiled intellectuals in Toulouse, which depended directly on the Fundació Ramon Llull, although its management was highly questioned by various exiles such as the same Rovira i Virgili, , and . Death and legacy Maria Baldó died in Toulouse, France, 1964. In the vicinity of La Farigola school, there are gardens that bear her name. Established in 1906, the Jardins de Maria Baldó occupy part of the gardens of the old Camils convent and have an area of nearly . Selected works El libro del hogar, 1933 References 1884 births 1964 deaths People from Hellín 20th-century Spanish educators Spanish feminists Spanish folklorists Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in France