1. Olga Petit or Sophie Balachowsky-Petit was a Ukrainian-born, French lawyer.
12 Facts About Olga Petit
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Olga Petit is noted as the first woman to take the legal oath in France.
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Olga Petit is known for assisting emigres from Russian empire settling in the country after the Russian Revolution.
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Olga Petit was born Scheina Lea Balachowsky on 16 March 1870, at Korsun, a city of the Russian Empire, to Herz and Clara Balachowsky.
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Olga Petit relocated to Paris to study law at the Faculty of Law of Paris from the Sorbonne University.
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Olga Petit married Jules Virgile Eugene Petit on 28 May 1896.
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On 6 December 1900, Olga Petit took the legal oath and became a qualified lawyer.
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Olga Petit obtained her law degree with the thesis, Law and ordinance in states which do not know the separation of legislative and executive powers.
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In several of her pleadings, Olga Petit was joined by her husband, who worked for the Office of the Minister at the Ministry of Trade, Industry, Post and Telecommunications.
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Olga Petit helped integrate Russian intellectuals into the French political, literary, and cultural circles.
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Olga Petit hosted balls and meetings to introduce them to French society.
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Olga Petit helped the existentialist philosopher Lev Shestov and his family as well as Ivan Bunin, who was the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.