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at a neighbor's home. The stress and the terror of the fire caused Sophie's mother, Madeleine Fouffé Barat (1740–1822), then pregnant with her third child, to go into labour. Born two months premature, Madeleine Sophie was considered so fragile that she was baptised early the next morning in Sainy
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in western France. Father Varin envisioned an entire network of such schools and, after the first establishments in France, foundations were established in North
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in advance, there was no time to call them to the church and so at five o'clock on the morning of 13 December 1779, Louise-Sophie CĂ©dor, a local woman on her way to early Mass, and Sophie's older brother, Louis, stood in as her godparents.
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Barat was born into a financially-comfortable family whose ancestors had lived in Joigny for generations and were proud of their roots in the region. Her father, Jacques Barat (1742–1809), was a
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