Lucienne Migette
Lucienne Migette | |
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| Born | November 6, 1903 Paris, France |
| Died | August 8, 1983 |
| NSA member | France 1958 - 1960 1964 - 1965 |
| ABM | Europe 1965 - ???? |
Lucienne Migette (November 6, 1903 - August 8, 1983) was an early French Bahá’í who made significant contributions to the development of the Bahá’í community of France and the translation of the Bahá’í Writings into French.
Biography[edit]
Migette was born in Paris in 1903. In her youth she trained to become a classical ballet dancer then completed studies in chemical engineering. She was introduced to the Bahá’í Faith at a meeting in Lyon on April 16, 1936, which was organized by Lydia Zamenhof and facilitated by May Maxwell and she declared on July 1 that year.[1]
Migette began travel teaching shortly after declaring and Maxwell referred to her as the "new Joan of Arc", a term which ‘Abdu’l-Bahá had used to describe Maxwell herself. She corresponded with the Swiss based International Bahá’í Bureau in the course of her teaching and in 1938 she attended the Congress of Religions in Switzerland where she read some of the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh on peace. She focused her efforts in Lyon until the establishment of the Local Spiritual Assembly of Lyon in 1940 then began travel teaching across France. In December 1941 Migette ceased undertaking travel teaching trips in order to devote herself to translating Bahá’í literature into French.[1]
After the end of the Second World War Migette settled in Paris where she was elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly and later to the inaugural National Spiritual Assembly of France in 1958. She served up until 1960 and was later re-elected serving until 1965 when she was appointed as an Auxiliary Board member for Protection, having already undertaken trips to the islands of the Indian Ocean to deepen Bahá’í communities on the Covenant at the request of the Hands of the Cause.[1]
In later life illness prevented Migette from travelling and she devoted herself to translation work. Some of her major contributions were the translations of the Hidden Words, God Passes By, and the Synopsis and Codification of the Kitab-i-Aqdas.[2]
Migette passed on August 8, 1983, and the French Bahá’í Publishing Trust wrote the following tribute after her passing:
"During the last year, Lucienne Migette left us to join the Abhá Kingdom. The name of Miss L. Migette will remain forever associated with that of the Publishing Trust. For several decades, she untiringly worked behind the scenes, bringing to the Trust not only her deep knowledge of the F tench language (she was the author of a glossary and a manual used by all the friends in preparing or reviewing translations), but also her scholarly grasp of comparative religions, so outstandingly portrayed in her book Le Cycle de l’Unité. If we are able today to offer to the Bahá’í world a large quantity of basic books on the Faith, this is in large measure due to the excellent quality of the translations she made."[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1994). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 19 (1983-1986), Pg(s) 610. View as PDF.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1994). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 19 (1983-1986), Pg(s) 611. View as PDF.
