Madeleine Daniélou

Madeleine Daniélou (November 16th 1880, Mayenne - October 13rd 1956, Neuilly-sur-Seine), born Madeleine Clamorgan , is, after the dismantling of free teaching by Emile Combes, the founder of a group of schools for the young girls with the innovative teaching aiming.

Origin

It is born the November 16th 1880, with Mayenne. It is the downward one of a very old family of the nobility Normande.

Of 1892 with 1894, it remains with the Tonkin where his/her father, the Colonel Clamorgan is in station and where, become general, he will die in 1904. Of 1895 with 1898, it carries out studies with Brest. From 1898, it carries out with the Collège Sévigné: a preparation with the Training certificate with the secondary education which it obtains in 1902, then with the aggregation, literature section, where it is received first in 1903.

Family

She marries in Paris the July 27th 1904, Charles Daniélou poet and politician, of which she has 6 children:

Jean Daniélou , theologist and cardinal 1905-1974,
Alain Daniélou , indianist and musicologist 1907-1980
Catherine Daniélou born in 1909, wife of the lawyer Georges Izard and mother of the producer TV Christophe Izard
François Daniélou , born in 1912
Louis Daniélou
Marie Daniélou

Teaching

She taught with the Sévigné College of 1904 with 1905. Enthusiastic Catholic, advised by the father Jesuit Leonce de Grandmaison, it founds in 1911 an apostolic community devoted women, the community Saint-François-Xavier, of which spirituality is of inspiration ignacian, community which " ensure the continuity and the coherence of work undertaken: continuity in time, through the diversity of the people who follow one another in the tasks of education; coherence in the objectives and the ends aimed, through the adaptations necessary and fertile novations of any work vivante" ( in the special booklet of Old of the Sainte-Marie Colleges on Madeleine Daniélou 1980) . In 1913 is born, at the instigation of Madeleine Daniélou, the first college of France where the young girls pass a traditional baccalaureat (College Sainte-Marie de Neuilly).

Sainte-Marie

" Colleges would have to be founded where the Christian values and the intellectual values were unies" (Mrs. Daniélou)

Since 1907, was created in Paris a Free Teacher training school with which the " associated very quickly; College Sainte-Marie de Neuilly" open in 1913.
Then, several colleges " Holy-Marie" open in Paris, then in all France and in Africa and also: les' Schools Charles Péguy : in 1936 with Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis), and in 1941 in Paris XIe, the agricultural College of Boissay (Loir-et-Cher) in 1946, the school Charles Péguy de Montreuil' (Seine-Saint-Denis) in 1949, Sainte-Marie of Blois in 1953, Sainte-Marie de Passy in 1938, transferred in 1970 in Rueil under the name of Center Madeleine-Daniélou , Sainte-Marie of the Invalids (1952 - 1980), the Sainte-Marie College of Cocodis to Abidjan (Ivory Coast) in 1962, lécole Charles Péguy of Rueil (92) in 1968, the College Mo Fant , with Dapaong, Togo in 1970.

As of the beginning, the Collèges Holy-Marie' accommodate the children at the same time in primary education and secondary. Sainte-Marie de Neuilly was even mixed in primary education as of its opening. The programme of teaching of this first " Collège" took as a starting point the program of the colleges of boys then different from that from the colleges from filles.
" To distinguish the line of the creative dash in a being and to follow it… To also distinguish the control of God on him and the seconder" , such is, said Mrs. Daniélou, the mission of the éducateur"

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