[A press campaign during the last century in order to help women students of medicine as candidates for the "Internat des Hôpitaux de Paris"].

In 1885, towards the end of the last century, young female French medical students were given the right to be "externes des Hôpitaux de Paris" (non-resident students) on a par with male students. Nevertheless they were still denied places at the "Internat des Hôpitaux" entrance examination (houseman or intern resident). Two years afterwards the feminist movement, putting their trust in public opinion, took hold of an opportunity to further their demands and had them published in several daily French newspapers. This successful campaign finally enabled female medical students to sit an open "Internat des Hôpitaux" entrance examination. An American, Augusta Klumpke, became the first graduate in 1886 and went on to be recognised as one of the best neurologists in France a few years later.