French newspapers often use a headline containing une femme ("a woman" or "one woman"). French Wikipedians created
a biography of this nameless woman on May 22 as part of their series of Pastiches (or Parodies). With four exceptions, the linked references are in French. The headlines, with one exception, all contain the words une femme or similar. This article was written by
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The date of birth of a woman is not known with certainty. Her mother, also a woman, won the Prix de Rome in 1911.
Training
In 1962, she was appointed doctor honoris causa of the
University of Paris by the Minister of National Education[1] and ten years later she graduated top of the class at the
École polytechnique.[2]
Career
In 1964, she discovered the structure of
coronavirus.[3]
In 1967, still a teenager, she became a football
referee,[4] but it was on a rugby field that she made her international debut on November 25, 2018 by refereeing a friendly match between Italy and South Africa.[5] The same year, she ran her first
Boston Marathon.[6]
In 2009, she was elected president of Lithuania[7] and mayor of
Marrakesh.[8] In Sweden, she became the first homosexual bishop[9] and received the Nobel Prize in economics.[10][11][12]
2010s
In May 2010, she was ordained a priest in the heart of Rome, an "untimely snag in the apostolic tradition" according to the
Holy See.[13] Barely a month later, she switched hemispheres to become Prime Minister of Australia[14] then, at the end of the year, was ordained a rabbi in Germany.[15]
In 2012, she became head of
Yahoo![16] and was then considered for the Nobel Peace Prize.[17] She was elected President of South Korea in December of the same year.[18]
In 2013, after having been a member of the
Navy SEALs,[19] she was promoted to the rank of general of the French
gendarmerie, after having already been a
Saint-Cyrienne gendarme, and colonel of gendarmerie in 2006.[20] She had previously been chosen to be President of
Interpol.[21] She was appointed prefect of the
Department of La Manche in June, when she was previously "only sub-prefect of
Draguignan".[22] After a stint in the field of
haute cuisine in autumn 2013, when she was named "cook of the year 2014" by Swiss
Gault et Millau[23] (a title she won again for 2020[24]), she progressed in her military career, rising to the rank of four-star general officer in June 2014.[25]
In 2014, she caused a sensation in the mathematical world by winning one of the four medals awarded that year for the
Fields medal, considered the Nobel Prize for the discipline.[26] She was appointed coach of a professional men's football team, in
Clermont-Ferrand.[27]
In 2015, she became editor of the newspaper The Economist[28] and Prime Minister of Namibia.[29] On November 8, she was appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Iran to Malaysia.[30] She ended the year by being appointed Cadet Commander of the
West Point Military Academy.[31]
The following year, she took over the management of Bild, the largest German daily newspaper[32] and became
Minister of Happiness in the United Arab Emirates.[33] She was rewarded in Angoulême with the first “Big Balls” prize for artistic courage[34] before being recruited by
FIFA as secretary general of the Executive Committee.[35] On September 15, she became the head of the main Japanese opposition party.[36]
Also in 2016, the philosopher Guillaume Von Der Weid noted that "she has been limited to three functions: biological gestation, family management and cultural grace".[37]
At the start of 2017, she took over as head of
Scotland Yard.[38] She was elected head of the
United Protestant Church of France in May 2017;[39] then also became the head coach of the French women 's football team in September of the same year;[40] while she was piloting the Gendarmerie helicopter in
Gironde,[41]Emmanuel Macron announced his intention to appoint her prime minister.[42] Also in 2017, a woman climbed on the front line against the religious patriarchy, both as a rabbi and imam.[43]
Resurrected in 2018, she began to direct the
CEA branch at
Gramat[44] as well as Radio France;[45] she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the fifth time (this time it is in recognition of her work on the directed evolution of proteins)[46] but also the Nobel Prize in Physics[47] for her invention in the field of lasers, which earned her this
biographical article on Wikipedia.[48] In April, she planned to climb
Mt. Everest for the ninth time[49] (in 2019, she climbed the mountain in only 12 days).[50] In June, she became head of South Korean diplomacy[51] and in July, she took over Brazilian judo.[52] In October, she was chosen by the Prime Minister of Ethiopia to become Minister of Defense of the country,[53] before taking the head of the Federal Supreme Court of the country.[54] On October 30, she was appointed
Prefect of
Brittany.[55] At the end of November, she became chief of staff of the Slovenian armies.[56]
From the end of 2018, she developed her passions for crafts by winning the title of Best Worker of France in
welding,[57] while she simultaneously took up the functions of general manager of
Air France.[58]
To the general amazement of the French media,[62] she was authorized in 2019 to referee a Ligue 1 match before the women's soccer world cup, on a semi-voluntary basis, which left her three full days a week to fulfill her professional duties.[63]
In March, a woman obtained permission[64] to go out into space, by herself. The exit from the International Space Station was postponed by one semester for small clothing problems[65] and completed – "in a white suit"[66] – on October 18.
Meanwhile on Earth, she succeeded
Michael Møller in May 2019 to at the head of the
United Nations Office at Geneva.[67] In July of the same year, she was appointed for the first time captain of the Greek Air Force.[68] In August, she won an ultra-distance and unassisted bicycle race, the
Transcontinental Race[69] and, in the process, joined the rapid intervention brigade of the French gendarmerie.[70]
In the fall of 2019, she took over as head of RBS, the
Royal Bank of Scotland[71] – five years after she became CEO of the
Swiss National Bank,[72] became Prime Minister of Belgium,[73] and also took up her post at the head of the Sudanese Supreme Court[74] and the military intelligence services of the Israeli army.[75] At the same time, a woman also officiates as an imam in France.[76]
Her experience of more than thirty years in the press enabled her to become the editorial director of the British daily, the Financial Times in 2019; she replaced
Lionel Barber, who held this position for 14 years.[77] She then was pleased to have reached a place where it is finally over with comments on her clothes.[78]
At the beginning of 2020, with “black hair cut square”, she was elected on the proposal of Prime Minister
Kyriakos Mitsotakis to the “essentially honorary position” of
President of Greece,[82] and
Pope Francis appointed her under secretary for multilateral relations of the section for relations with the states of the Secretariat of State.[83]
In the space of a few months, she became head of both the Spanish
Civil Guard[84] and the secret services.[85][86]
In February 2020, she also became CEO of
Infrabel, the Belgian rail infrastructure manager.[87] The same month, she took over the management of the
Opéra de Lyon,[88] while the
Legrand group appointed her president of the board of directors with effect from July 1, 2020.[89] She presented the television news of the public
South Korean channel
KBS five times a week.[90][91][92]
On February 12th 2020 a woman was appointed CEO of Crédit mutuel Arkéa Bank, thus becoming "a rarity" in the banking community.[93]
Later in April, she also became sports director of
SC Bern, a Swiss ice hockey club playing in the
National League.[94]
On May 26, 2020, a woman won the "Best Young Economist 2020 Award" for her work on the effects of microeconomic production structures on the macroeconomic balance of international markets.[104]
On June 2, 2020, she became the highest paid CEO in the world for the first time.[105] She was also in charge of The Sims[106] and appointed president of the
Neuchâtel Cancer League.[107] Three days later, she took charge of the
Creuse firefighters.[108]
On June 12, 2020, she continued her ascent by simultaneously becoming a stealth fighter pilot in the US Air Force[109] and director of Human Spaceflight at
NASA.[110] Four days later, she was recognized as an artisanal
brewer of organic
green tea beer in
Céret, in
Pyrénées-Orientales, France.[111]
Death
In France, she dies every two and a half days from beating by her partner.[112]
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