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Emmanuelle Cinquin
Catholic religious sister
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Born | Madeleine Cinquin (1908-11-16)16 November 1908 Brussels, Belgium |
Died | 20 October 2008(2008-10-20) (aged 99) Callian, Var, France |
Occupation(s) | Catholic Religious Sister and human rights worker |
Emmanuelle Cinquin, NDS (born 16 November 1908 – 20 October 2008), widely known just as Sœur Emmanuelle, was a religious sister of both Belgian and French origins, noted for her involvement in working for the plight of the poor in Turkey and Egypt.
She was honoured with Egyptian citizenship in 1991.
Soeur emmanuelle biography of william shakespeare
Life
She was born Madeleine Cinquin in Brussels, Belgium, the daughter of a French father, Jules Cinquin, and a Belgian mother, Berthe Lenssens. Her parents were wealthy lingerie manufacturers; their background was from Saint-Omer.
Her paternal grandmother, Laure Mélanie Dreyfus, was the daughter of an Alsatian Jew named Emmanuel Moïse Augustin Dreyfus an