[1] Encouraged by her father, a French teacher, she studied law at university and was one of the first women admitted to the bar in Paris in the late 1920s.
[1] After meeting her future husband Georges Peyroles, she joined the Popular Democratic Party and became general secretary of its women's section.
During World War II she participated in the French resistance, hosting British airmen in the couple's home and helping them escape to Spain.
[1] She was subsequently a Popular Republican Movement (MRP) candidate in Seine-et-Oise department in the October 1945 National Assembly elections.
Although Peyrolles lost her seat in the 1951 elections, she re-entered parliament after winning a by-election in March 1954, defeating André Stil in the second round.