Lidia Poët
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Lidia Poët was the first modern female Italian lawyer. Her disbarment led to a movement to allow women to practice law and hold public office in Italy.
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Memorial plaque for Lidia Poët in Turin
Waldensians
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The Waldensians, also known as Waldenses, Vallenses, Valdesi, or Vaudois, are adherents of a church tradition that began as an ascetic movement within Western Christianity before the Reformation. Orig
Lidia Poët
…practice law and hold public office in Italy. Poët was born in 1855 in the hamlet of Traverse, Perrero, in the Occitan-speaking Germanasca Valley, into a Waldensian family. She passed her law examinations at the Faculty of Law of the University of Turin and received her degree on 17 June 1881. For the following two…
Statue of Peter Waldo at the Luther Monument in Worms
Illustrations depicting Waldensians as witches in Le champion des dames, by Martin Le France, 1451
Piedmontese children forced from their parents
Massacre of the Mérindol Waldensians in 1545