Lucie Chevalley (née Sabatier; 27 July 1882, Le Petit-Quevilly – 1 October 1979 dead at the age of ninety-seven) was the founder of social d'Aide aux Emigrants known as one of the international aids which provides services for

refugees A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution.

in France. She devoted and dedicated her life to serve for humanitarian organizations she also has a patient of helping refugees. She spent decades helping refugees in her country

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and across

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as well. She also worked as a member of the Council of State in France for refugees and stateless people. In summer 1942 she worked for saving the lives of others and also established the underground organization Entraide Temporaire (Temporary Mutual Assistance) toiled day and night to rescue life of 500 Jewish children. Her father,

Auguste Sabatier Louis Auguste Sabatier (; 22 October 1839 – 12 April 1901), French Protestant theologian, was born at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche and died in Strasbourg. He was educated at the Protestant theological faculty of Montauban as well as at th ...

, is a French reformed theologian and academic.Patrick Cabanel, “Lucie Chevalley”, in Patrick Cabanel & André Encrevé, ''Dictionnaire biographique des protestants français de 1787 à nos jours, tome 1 : A-C'' , Paris, Les Éditions de Paris/Max Chaleil, 2015 (), .

Awards

* 1965: Nansen Refugee Award * 1993 : Righteous Among the Nations

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chevalley, Lucie 1882 births 1979 deaths French Resistance members French Righteous Among the Nations 20th-century French women politicians People from Le Petit-Quevilly Nansen Refugee Award laureates