Marguerite Dilhan

She then became the first woman in France to open her own practice and plead in a criminal Cour d'assises on November 26, 1903[2].Born in 1876 in Miélan (Gers), Julie Marguerite was the daughter of Ferdinand and Antoinette Cécile Valérie Ponsan, who married on December 27, 1875, in Sembouès.

She went on to become the first woman to open her own law firm and to plead before the Cour d'Assises in a criminal case on 26 November 1903, where she received the compliments of the judge for her defense .

Agathe Dyvrande-Thévenin invited her to join the "Groupement amical des Avocates de France", at a time when women did not yet have the right to vote.

[1] In coordination with her friend Marthe Condat, she fought for public hygiene and against health problems, including support for Goutte de lait.

[7] The city of Toulouse named a community room and a street after her, while a commemorative plaque adorns her former home and law firm, at 2 bis rue Gatien-Arnoult.

2 bis rue Gatien-Arnoult (Toulouse) where she lived and worked from 1909 until her death.