 In 1979, she led the Europe-Ecologie political movement for the environmental group's first European elections, which obtained 4.39 percent for a total of 888,134 votes in France.That same year, she founded the women-led peace organization, Femmes pour la Paix, which she headed until 1996.In 1983, she participated in the Fast for Life movement, fasting 38 days in Paris for nuclear disarmament.