Julie-Victoire Daubié was the first French woman to obtain her baccalaureate. Born in 1824, she became a sociologist and economic journalist.
She was one of the great pioneers of the fight for female emancipation. It then took 70 years for the right to vote to be granted to women in France, in 1944. The French Post Office is celebrating the bicentenary of her birth with the issue of a stamp bearing her image. The stamp will be released on March 8.