Nicole Girard-Mangin (11 October 1878 – 6 June 1919) was the first female medical doctor to serve in the French Army.

[4] She specialised in tuberculosis and contagious disease,[5][6] later opening a TB clinic and starting research on cancer.

France was rapidly calling up as many soldiers, nurses, and doctors it could in advance of the war that could start at any moment.

[1][3][7] Her first posting saw her at a former health spa in Bourbonne-les-Bains, where her superior did not approve of having a woman as a doctor there.

His requests were consistently refused as the French army still had a massive shortage of qualified doctors.

[3] In 1917, she was promoted to the rank of doctor-captain and was appointed to be director of a training program for nurses at the Edith Cavell Hospital in Paris.

She was cremated at Père Lachaise Cemetery, her ashes interred in the family tomb at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.