Condat was born in
Graulhet, Tarn on July 19, 1886. Her mother was Marie Athénaïs Victorine, a milliner and her father Georges Condat was a haberdasher. Marie-Louise Roques, head of the Lafont boarding school, boasted of Marthe Condat's success as a teenager in achieving an advanced diploma. Condat was an intern at the hospitals of Paris from May 1, 1910, to May 1, 1914 (medical internships/residencies lasted four years). From 1914 she worked in residency for a further five years at children's hospital
Hôpital des Enfants Malades (the first pediatric hospital in the world) to compensate for the absence of male staff drafted for military service in World War I. She was awarded a Public Assistance Medal for this work. Condat successfully defended her doctoral thesis: "Leukocytolysis and leukocytic fragility" in 1916, for which she was awarded the médaille d’argent de la Faculté. In 1918 she moved to Toulouse. Condat became the first woman in France to pass the competitive in 1923, being appointed head of the laboratory and becoming the first woman to hold a chair of medicine in 1932 at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Toulouse. She was promoted to professor of pediatric medicine in 1936. ==Death and legacy==