Marie-Odette Dubois-Violette

She was born in 1918 in France,^[3] and her father was Léon Blaise.^[4] She married the physicist Pierre-Louis Dubois-Violette.^[5]

From 1942 to 1945, she received a research grant from the CNRS. From 1946 to 1950, she was a researcher at the CNRS while working on her thesis; she obtained her doctorate in 1951.^[5][2]

She was a member of the jury for the mathematics agrégation in the late 1960s.^[5]

From 1971 until 1976 she was the first female Inspector General of National Education in France.^[2][1]

She retired in 1976.^[5]

She was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1977.^[6]