Thanks to a donation from Roger Mansuy, it will soon be supplemented by a display case featuring newspaper articles from 1939—including the photograph below—reporting that she had placed first in the mathematics agrégation examination. Le Petit Parisien, for example, opens its brief report with the words "Another victory for women" and stresses that she was the first woman ever to achieve such a ranking.
It is worth remembering that she was then a student at the ENS. After earning her doctorate, she devoted herself to analysis and geometry and was a professor for nearly thirty years at the Faculty of Science in Paris, which later became Pierre and Marie Curie University. She also published several textbooks and received several honours, including from the Académie des sciences and the Collège de France.
