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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 in
1906 !! 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 Prin
ciples

. They say in the dictionaries: Her main
title 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

", 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 Beregovoy
as if she had never existed.

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