WOMAN AS JUDGE.
FRENCH APPOINTMENT. LONDON, February 24. France has appointed the first woman judge, Madame Lesieur, to the Beauvais 1 tribunal. She owns a. local shop and has not decided whether she will wear men’s embroidered ermine robes. The French Senate has consistently opposed woman suffrage, although M. Blum, when he was Prime Minister, appointed women to important Government posts.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 128, 13 March 1939, Page 8
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