Pauline Kergomard

Pauline Kergomard was a French educator. She is known as the founder of the nursery school in France.

Pauline Reclus was born in Bordeaux in 1838. Her father was Jean Reclus, inspector of schools of the Gironde. He uncle, Jacques Reclus, taught at the Protestant college of SainteFoylaGrande. She spent her infancy with her aunt Zline in Orthez. On returning to Bordeaux she was a student at a secular institution that became the cole normale of Gironde. She became a public school teacher in the Gironde. She married Jules DuplessisKergomard, a penniless man of letters with little interest in working.

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