Her disbarment led to a movement to allow women to practice law and hold public office in Italy.

Poët was born in 1855 in the hamlet of Traverse, Perrero, in the Occitan-speaking Germanasca Valley, into a Waldensian family.

[1] For the following two years, she "attended forensic practice" in the office of a lawyer and assisted at the sessions of the tribunals.

When her brother departed for Vichy in France each year, she took over the practice entirely, and when necessary, sought out male colleagues to plead in court on behalf of her clients.

[citation needed] Under Law n. 1176 of 17 July 1919, women were allowed to hold certain public offices.