The first female referee in Ligue 1

We are facing a real revolution for the French Ligue 1. 
Sunday, April 28th, for the first time in the history of French League 1 in 87 years, a woman referee will be conducting Amiens-Strasbourg: Stephanie Frappart. To assist Frappart at the VAR, will be Clement Turpin, referee of the Champions League quarter-finals between Juventus and Ajax.

Originally from the Oise Valley, Stephanie, born in December 1983, has been a referee since she was 18 years old.
Her story speaks for her: in 2014 she is a referee in Ligue 2; in 2015 he is one of the referees of the Women's World Cup in Canada; she has been a referee at the 2016 Rio and 2017 European Olympics; is one of the 27 referees selected for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Championship which will start on June 7th in France.

Before Stephanie Frappart, only three other women had been engaged in the French top flight, but only as assistants: Nelly Viennot, Corinne Lagrange and Ghislaine Perron-Labbè. If instead, we consider all of Europe, only the German Bibiana Steinhaus directed a match in one of the main European championships: the Bundesliga.

In a tweet, the French Football Federation, in announcing this historic turning point, spurred all the other federations that have a woman referee selected for the 2019 Women's World Cup to make the same choice to give everyone the chance to present themselves in the best conditions technical and physical to the commitment of next summer.