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 -7-And each time a great figure arises;it is distorted or minimized.3 stunning examples: one is Marie Curie: until 1980, there was no article under her name in our dictionaries. You had to look for her husband Pierre Curie and it was said that she helped him in his work. In addition it was said that he won 2 Nobel Prizes in 1901 and 1911. He died in1906 !! Marie Curie got the second Nobel alone !!!Nobody bothered to correct!

The second is Mme du Chatelet, an 18th century mathematician who translated Newton's Principles

Principles

. They say in the dictionaries: Her maintitle to fame is that "she was the mistress of Voltaire during 15 years"!

Women are accepted in the role of muse, not mathematicians !

More recently, in "Libération

Liberation

", one of our best left daily papers,they a journalist published a list of the prime ministers of the 5th Republic. Will you believe it,Edith Cresson, our first woman Prime Minister,who remained a year in office, was forgotten, skipped.He The journalist extended Michel Rocard's governement to Beregovoyas if she had never existed.

I must stay in favour of Mitt.Mitterand, who had thecourage to impose a the first woman at the head ofthe government, that he recently decided tolet the first woman enter in the Panthéon, the monument dedicated to great men. He chose Marie Curie. I hope he willhave time and health! to celebrate that ceremony...Otherwise, years to wait before a wmnwoman is publicly honoured.