Sarah Monod was a French Protestant philanthropist and feminist.
17 Facts About Sarah Monod
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Alexandrine Elisabeth Sarah Monod was born on 24 June 1836 in Lyon.
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Sarah Monod was the fourth of seven children of the evangelical church pastor of Lyon Adolphe Monod and his wife Hannah Honyman.
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Sarah Monod's godfather was her uncle Edouard Monod, a merchant at Le Havre, and her godmothers were her paternal aunts Eliza and Betsy Monod.
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Sarah Monod would have taken private lessons, including Italian and German in addition to English, her mother's language, which she spoke fluently.
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Sarah Monod took care of the education of her younger sister Camille, nine years her junior.
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Sarah Monod was very close to her father, who died in 1855 when she was nineteen.
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Sarah Monod published "The Farewell of Adolphe Monod to his friends and the Church", several volumes of sermons, a collection of letters and a biography of her father.
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Sarah Monod organized the section for correctional education in prison of minor Protestant offenders.
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In Saint-Lazare Sarah Monod met Isabelle Bogelot, Director of work of former prisoners of Saint-Lazare, and the abolitionists Josephine Butler, Emilie de Morsier and Aime Humbert.
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Sarah Monod worked with her cousin Henri Monod, director of the Higher Council for Public Assistance.
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Sarah Monod was part of the congress committee chaired by Jules Simon.
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Sarah Monod decided, so momentum would not be lost, to bring together annually "all women interested in philanthropy".
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Sarah Monod collaborated closely with two other activists pastors' daughters, Julie Siegfried and Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger.
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On 11 November 1911 Sarah Monod received the Legion of Honor from the hands of Senator Camille Ferdinand Dreyfus.
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Sarah Monod was a member of journal L'Avant-Courriere, and even joined the French Union for Women's Suffrage.
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Sarah Monod died in Paris on 13 December 1912 at the age of 76, following a stroke aggravated by her presence at a sale organized for the International Union of Friends of young women.