In November, 1908, at the Paris Court of Assizes, there was a strange scene. A woman stood on trial for one of those " crimes passionnels " which are so frequent in France. The evidence against the prisoner was very strong, and there seemed every likelihood of a heavy sentence being passed, when her counsel addressed the jury. The result of the counsel's speech, however, was that not only was the prisoner acquitted, but the judge, with tears in his eyes, congratulated the counsel upon her wonderful eloquence - for the counsel was a woman, Mile. Miropowlski, who was entered on the rolls in October, 1907, when she was only twenty years of age. Mile. Miropowlski was the youngest woman barrister who had ever pleaded in the courts. It is a striking testimony to her skill that she has been briefed in all sorts of cases - civil, criminal, and divorce - and always alone. " There are some callings," says Mile. Miropowlski, " that women cannot undertake, but where speaking and writing are concerned, why should they be excluded ? ' Mile. Miropowlski is of Polish origin, but was born in Paris. She was brought up on Latin and Greek, and began to study law at sixteen. She was only twenty-one when she won her first case.

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