FRENCH WOMAN LAWYER

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1929, Page 15

FRENCH WOMAN LAWYER

OPINION ON DIVORCE

France's first woman lawyer, Mme. Suzanne Grinberg, who was admitted to the Bar in 1910 and now specialises in divorce cases, in an interview with mo tho other, day gave to her husband all the credit, of her career, states a writer hi..a London'"daily-. ■ . ; -. . ,

"I was very young," slid Said, "when 1 finished my law course, and was so self-conscious at being the only woman in tho profession that I am sure I never would havo started practising if my husband hadn't chided m

"This sage husband said to me: 'And why should being a woman keep you from being a lawyer? There will soon be other women to-keep you company in Court.' Of course, he was right Now there are almost one thousand women lawyers in France." •

Few of the thousand, however, approach Mine. Grinberg in profesional standing. She is the only women member of .the cornmitteo of tho French Bar Association.

'I have had many criminal cases," Mme. Gnnberg recalled. "My first five murder cases were women who had killed their, husbands, / I got four of them off, but. ono received a sentence. My friends used to accuse me laughingly of bolioving in murdering husbands." In speaking of divorces, she deemed that there was any feeling in Paris over people from abroad getting overnight divorces. <We Parisians hays a fine joke about our French' justice, since roreigners come here for divorces " sho said. ' . •

Mine. Gnnberg has her own ideas about divorces. Sho said: "Women ask for divorces too easily, I think There is no patience left in the world Girls come into my office and say to me: 'My husband and I quarrelled last night. I want a divorce.' I say if they really want a divorce, I will take the_ case, but why not wait, try to be patience, adjust themselves a little try to get along. There is far too little tolerance, far too little humour, far too little consideration and patience in many modern marriages." Mme. Grinberg's career does not entirely consume her life. She and her husband and their 15-year-old son live a busy social life in Paris.