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Jeanne Chauvin (22 April 1862 – 7 September 1926) was the second woman to obtain a degree in law in France, in 1890. Her application to be sworn in as a lawyer was at first rejected, but after the law was changed in 1900 she was the second French woman to be authorized to plead at the bar. ==Early years== Jeanne Marie Marguerite Chauvin was born in Jargeau, Loiret, on 22 April 1862. Her parents were Jean Cezary Chauvin, a notary, and Marie Emilie Leseur. Chauvin's father died while she was a child, and the family moved to Paris. Jeanne Chauvin was the second woman to earn a law degree in Paris. She obtained her degree in law on 18 July 1890, and her PhD in law on 2 July 1892 with a thesis titled "Historical Study of the professions open to women, the influence of Semitism on changes in the economic position of women in society". Her scheduled defense of her thesis was disrupted by the protests of male students. When she was later able to present her thesis, she received objections from professors about her assertions on women's rights, and these objections were cheered by hostile students. Marie Popelin had tried to be admitted to the bar of Belgium in 1888, but had been refused. Since the Belgian and French civil codes were so similar in wording Jeanne Chauvin expected to be refused also. Instead she turned to teaching the law to girls in secondary schools in Paris. Chauvin developed a manual on "Law Courses given in Paris girls schools". She became involved in the ''Avant-Courrière'' (Forerunner) association founded in 1893 by Jeanne Schmahl, which called for the right of women to be witnesses in public and private acts, and for the right of married women to take the product of their labor and dispose of it freely. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeanne Chauvin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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