Julie-Victoire Daubié

Julie-Victoire Daubié (26 March 1824 – 26 August 1874) was a French journalist. She was the first woman to have graduated from a French university when she obtained a licentiate degree in Lyon in 1871.

Josephine Butler translated a part of Julie-Victoire Daubié's books into English.

Early life

Daubié was born on 26 March 1824

Education and career

Daubié entered an essay competition in 1859 held by the Imperial Academy of Science and Fine Letters of Lyon. She wrote a nearly-300-page work titled "The Poor Woman in the 19th Century. Female Conditions and Resources," which detailed professional and academic exclusion for women, wage inequality, and other travails. The essay took first prize, and Daubié was given admittance. She was 37 years old when she became the first female baccalaureate in France, in August 1861.

After her graduation, Daubié continued to write about the conditions faced by women as an activist and a scholar. She moved to a large house she purchased in Fontenoy and set up an embroidery shop, which she entrusted to her niece. She also settled on the Champs-Élysées in Paris and became a recognized economic journalist. In 1871, she became an arts graduate in Lyon, becoming the first female licenciate in letters. She remained an activist for women's rights and, later, a journalist.

Death

Daubié died on 25 August 1874, age 50, in Lorraine at the Fontenoy-le-Château, due to tuberculosis.

Legacy

In March 2018, Google featured her in their "Google Doodles".