Valérie de Gasparin

Valérie de Gasparin, born Boissier (* September 13, 1813 in Geneva, † June 16, 1894 in Pregny -Chambésy ) was a reformed Swiss writer.

Life

After her mother's death in 1836 she took part in the western Swiss revivalism and married in 1837 the French Count Agénor Étienne de Gasparin. She wrote more than 80 literary and journalistic works mainly on religious topics.

From 1859 onwards they fought in the name of personal freedom against the deaconesses being to whom it accused Catholicising tendencies, and in 1859 she founded with her husband in Lausanne, the Ecole Normale de gardes - malades, the first secular school for free nurses from which the present-day clinic and School La Source has emerged.

Works (selection)

• Nouvelles, 1833
• Voyage d'une ignorant dans le midi de la France et l' Italie, 1835
• Le mariage du point de vue chrétien, 1843 ( French text as a ZIP file )
• Camille, 1866 ( novel)
• Of the monastic corporations au be you protestantisme, 1855