On Wednesday 19 June at the Ivan Bruschi House Museum, an evening open to all will take place organized by CASA THEVENIN and CISL pensioners section.
At 6.30 pm conference on the figure of Sister Gabriella Thévenin, with Prof. Italo Farnetani as speaker, followed by a visit to the works of the Subiano collection, recently restored, which the Ivan Bruschi Foundation kindly hosts until 31 August, finishing with a rich aperitif in the splendid terrace which allows a suggestive panorama of the historic center of Arezzo. Info and reservation at 0575354126.
Below is a short presentation of the conference.
Sister Gabriella THEVENIN, born in France in 1823 in Argent-sur-Sauldre, a place that constitutes an important historiographical element for understanding her education and interpreting her work, because in France the 19th century was an intense period from a political point of view, but it also became a cultural and social laboratory.
The work, which brings together French culture more in the social dimension and concretizes the values resulting from the French Revolution, is the creation of the Arezzo orphanage which will later be named after her and become “the Thévenin”.
Sister Gabriella Thévenin implemented a true revolution in the care of orphans, so radical that in this sector, there is a before and after 1870, the year of the foundation of the Arezzo orphanage.
The difference lies entirely in the different approach towards the protection, training and care of orphans, that is, the most fragile and defenseless people. If before Sister Gabriella Thévenin, piety prevailed, afterwards the motto liberté, égalité, fraternité was fully implemented, determining an valorization of the person, a promotion of female emancipation, preventing gender discrimination.
Ugh. Ivan Bruschi House Museum Print
