About Augustine Soubeiran
Lived 1858 – 1933 (aged 74–75). Augustine Soubeiran was a French teacher.
Augustine Soubeiran (30 October 1858 – 31 May 1933) was a French-Australian educator. She was a co-principal of Kambala School in Sydney and she founded an Australian-French society. She was awarded the Légion d'honneur after her death.
Life Soubeiran was born in Saint-Jean-du-Gard in 1858 in southern France. In 1870 she was in Paris and after school in Lausanne she emigrated to Australia after her parents died. and Sydney University's mathematics Professor Theodore Thomas Gurney was her brother. Kambala School circa 1896. Louisa Gurney is in the centre and Soubeiran is 2nd from right in 2nd row In 1895 she was one of the founders of the Alliance France which awarded prizes for spoken French.
She and Gurney moved to Bowral where she lived in declining health.
Soubeiran died in Darlinghurst in 1933 and she was awarded the Légion d'honneur later that year.
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(1858-1933) headmistress and French patriot
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Augustine Soubeiran was born on 30 October 1858 in Saint-Jean-du-Gard.
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Augustine Soubeiran died in 1933 in Darlinghurst.
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Augustine Soubeiran was a teacher.
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Augustine Soubeiran was French.
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