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Since the 1990s and the first studies on the history of sport and women, it was assumed that sport and feminist movements were diametrically at odds with each other, without truly questioning the nature or reality of this impermeability. In this article, Alice Milliat, the leader of French and international women’s sport from the 1910s to the 1930s, is used as an example to rethink the relationship between these two spheres of activity, which did in fact intersect and overlap during the Interwar period. Aligned with the moderate suffragist Jane Misme, Alice Milliat campaigned for gender equality through sport thanks to a strong media presence, the application of feminist principles in the organisation of sport federations and the defence of all sports for all women.