A French educator, married and mother of six, holding an advanced teaching degree rare for a woman of her time. She founded schools and a community devoted to forming women both believing and cultivated, joining inner life to intellectual rigour.
In their own words
The aim of education is very simple: to help the child develop all that he carries within, and at the same time to adapt to his time and his world.
L'Éducation selon l'esprit (Education according to the Spirit)