14 Facts About Tommy Fallot

Tommy Fallot was a French pastor who is known as the founder of Christian socialism in France.

Tommy Fallot was born on 4 October 1844 in Fouday, Bas-Rhin.

Tommy Fallot's grandfather was Daniel Legrand, an industrialist and Christian in Ban de la Roche, Alsace who felt that the gospel message was primarily for the poor and unfortunate, despite their suffering.

Tommy Fallot's thesis was on "The Poor and the Gospel".

Tommy Fallot spent four years as Lutheran pastor of Wildersbach, near the Ban de la Roche.

Tommy Fallot then left the Lutheran church and moved to Paris, where the Free Church had offered him a position.

Tommy Fallot was pastor at the Chapelle du Nord, a church of the Reformed Church of France on the rue des Petits-Hotels in Paris.

Tommy Fallot was influenced by the work of the English clergyman Robert Whitaker McAll, who held "moral conferences" to carry the message of the Gospel to the poorest people.

Tommy Fallot founded the French League for the Rehabilitation of Public Morality, which gained widespread support in Paris and the provinces.

Tommy Fallot began to adhere to socialist ideas, although condemning class warfare preached by leaders who "dream of revenge and conquest".

Tommy Fallot founded the Cercle socialiste de la libre pensee chretienne, which in 1882 became the Societe d'aide fraternelle et d'etudes sociales.

Tommy Fallot is considered to be the founder of the French "Social Christianity" movement.

Tommy Fallot spent the last ten years of his life as pastor of Sainte-Croix, and then Aouste, near Crest in the Drome department.

Tommy Fallot died in Mirabel-et-Blacons, Drome on 3 September 1904.