--- title: Google Doodle Honors French Feminist Julie-Victoire Daubié description: Monday's Google Doodle celebrates journalist and activist Julie-Victoire Daubié, the first woman in France to obtain a bachelor's degree canonical: https://time.com/5215126/julie-victoire-daubie-google-doodle/ author: Laignee Barron article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-26T03:34:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:51:37.725Z og:title: What to Know About French Feminist Julie-Victoire Daubié og:description: The trailblazing journalist was born 194 years ago today og:url: https://time.com/5215126/julie-victoire-daubie-google-doodle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt965bd5ae1b2016d2/69892befbc6cfc703d3e5771/julie-victoire-daubies-194th-birthday-google-doodle.jpg?branch=production&width=789&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 789 og:image:height: 444 og:image:alt: julie-victoire-daubies-194th-birthday-Google Doodle og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What to Know About French Feminist Julie-Victoire Daubié twitter:description: The trailblazing journalist was born 194 years ago today twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt965bd5ae1b2016d2/69892befbc6cfc703d3e5771/julie-victoire-daubies-194th-birthday-google-doodle.jpg?branch=production&width=789&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # What to Know About Julie-Victoire Daubié, the French Feminist Born 194 Years Ago Today > Sponsored content. 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Google Doodle by [Laignee Barron](https://time.com/author/laignee-barron/) ## Laignee Barron Mar 26, 2018 3:34 AM UTC Monday’s Google Doodle celebrates French journalist Julie-Victoire Daubié, the [first woman](https://www.google.com/doodles/julie-victoire-daubies-194th-birthday) in her country to obtain a bachelor’s degree. Daubié, born in 1824, had little patience with the prevailing norms that held back many women of her generation. She studied Latin, Greek, history, geography and German with her brother’s help, but still faced numerous rejections from French universities despite the fact that no laws barred women’s entry to academic circles. Studious and stubborn, she persisted in taking classes while working as a governess. In 1859, Daubié entered an essay competition at the Imperial Academy of Science and Fine Letters of Lyon. Taking a stand for women’s suffrage, Daubié [wrote](https://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID%5FARTICLE=TGS%5F001%5F0129) an essay titled, _“The Poor Woman in the 19th Century. Female Conditions and Resources,”_ a nearly 300-page opus surveying the travails of female workers, including wage inequality and exclusion from education and many professions. The essay not only earned acclaim and took first prize, but it also allowed Daubié admittance to the academy. > [](https://twitter.com/Limportant%5Ffr/status/848200177290809345) In 1861, at the age of 37, Daubié became France’s first female baccalaureate. Daubié continued to champion women’s rights for the remainder of her life. She died in 1974 at the age of 50. In its commemoration of Daubié on what would have been her 194th birthday, Google’s Doodle depicts the scholar and activist reaching for an academic certificate just within her grasp. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5215126/julie-victoire-daubie-google-doodle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5215126/julie-victoire-daubie-google-doodle/"},"headline":"What to Know About Julie-Victoire Daubié, the French Feminist Born 194 Years Ago Today","datePublished":"2018-03-26T03:34:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:51:37.725Z","description":"The trailblazing journalist was born 194 years ago today","url":"https://time.com/5215126/julie-victoire-daubie-google-doodle/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Google Doodle","onetime","overnight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt965bd5ae1b2016d2/69892befbc6cfc703d3e5771/julie-victoire-daubies-194th-birthday-google-doodle.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laignee Barron","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laignee-barron/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt965bd5ae1b2016d2/69892befbc6cfc703d3e5771/julie-victoire-daubies-194th-birthday-google-doodle.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"julie-victoire-daubies-194th-birthday-Google Doodle","caption":"Google's March 26 Doodle celebrates the 194th birthday of Julie-Victoire Daubié, a French journalist and the first woman in her country to obtain a bachelor's degree.","creditText":"Google Doodle","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5215126/julie-victoire-daubie-google-doodle/","name":"What to Know About Julie-Victoire Daubié, the French Feminist Born 194 Years Ago Today"}}]}] ```