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Marie Arago
Marie Arago, born Marie-Anne Roig (3 November 1755 – 5 September 1845) was a French woman, wife of François Bonaventure Arago and mother of the six Arago brothers, François, Jean, Jacques, Victor, Joseph and Étienne Arago.
She raised her eight children alone after the death of her husband in 1814, passed on her human values and encouraged them to pursue their studies.
An "Arago clan" was formed around her eldest son, François, at the Paris Observatory, including Claude-Louis Mathieu (who married his sister Marguerite), Alexander von Humboldt and Félix Savary.
Marie-Anne-Agathe Roig was born on 3 November 1755 in Corneilla-la-Rivière, a village of about 700 inhabitants in the province of Roussillon, a Catalan language region that had belonged to France since 1659. Her father, François Roig, was a pagès, a well-to-do peasant, from Corneilla-la-Riviere. He was a soldier with the rank of an officer. Her paternal grandfather, Camo Roig, was a doctor. Her paternal uncle was pastor of Ponteilla, another village in the same region of southern France, about a dozen kilometres southeast of Corneilla-la-Rivière.
Her mother, named Victoire Brial, was the daughter of a pagès of Camélas. This village is also located about twelve kilometres from Corneilla-la-Rivière, but south-southwest.
At a time when almost all women in the region were illiterate (90% of women of her generation were unable to sign their marriage certificates), she learned to read and write alone, while hiding, from books written in Latin.
On 12 August 1778, with a dowry of 2,200 livres, she married François Bonaventure Arago in Corneilla-la-Rivière. He was a pagès with a degree in law. Their marriage produced eleven children. They raised them in the local Catalan language. The couple moved to Estagel, a Roussillon town of 1,000 inhabitants, located a dozen kilometres north of Corneilla-la-Rivière.
François Bonaventure Arago was of the same social background as Marie Roig. A farmer and moderately well-off proprietor, he was orphaned at a very young age and was raised by an uncle, a priest who enrolled him in law school in Perpignan. His social background, however, did not allow him to take a more prestigious job as a notary or lawyer.
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Marie Arago
Marie Arago, born Marie-Anne Roig (3 November 1755 – 5 September 1845) was a French woman, wife of François Bonaventure Arago and mother of the six Arago brothers, François, Jean, Jacques, Victor, Joseph and Étienne Arago.
She raised her eight children alone after the death of her husband in 1814, passed on her human values and encouraged them to pursue their studies.
An "Arago clan" was formed around her eldest son, François, at the Paris Observatory, including Claude-Louis Mathieu (who married his sister Marguerite), Alexander von Humboldt and Félix Savary.
Marie-Anne-Agathe Roig was born on 3 November 1755 in Corneilla-la-Rivière, a village of about 700 inhabitants in the province of Roussillon, a Catalan language region that had belonged to France since 1659. Her father, François Roig, was a pagès, a well-to-do peasant, from Corneilla-la-Riviere. He was a soldier with the rank of an officer. Her paternal grandfather, Camo Roig, was a doctor. Her paternal uncle was pastor of Ponteilla, another village in the same region of southern France, about a dozen kilometres southeast of Corneilla-la-Rivière.
Her mother, named Victoire Brial, was the daughter of a pagès of Camélas. This village is also located about twelve kilometres from Corneilla-la-Rivière, but south-southwest.
At a time when almost all women in the region were illiterate (90% of women of her generation were unable to sign their marriage certificates), she learned to read and write alone, while hiding, from books written in Latin.
On 12 August 1778, with a dowry of 2,200 livres, she married François Bonaventure Arago in Corneilla-la-Rivière. He was a pagès with a degree in law. Their marriage produced eleven children. They raised them in the local Catalan language. The couple moved to Estagel, a Roussillon town of 1,000 inhabitants, located a dozen kilometres north of Corneilla-la-Rivière.
François Bonaventure Arago was of the same social background as Marie Roig. A farmer and moderately well-off proprietor, he was orphaned at a very young age and was raised by an uncle, a priest who enrolled him in law school in Perpignan. His social background, however, did not allow him to take a more prestigious job as a notary or lawyer.
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