After a very pious childhood and teenage years which were devoted to the care of the poor and sick in her father’s house, she experienced a “conversion” at the age of 20 and, several years afterwards, took vows before her brother Hugh and established her first beguine community near the Roubaud River on the edge of the town of Hyères (c. 1241).
Jacques Roubaud | Roubaud | ''Entrance of the Russian troops in Tiflis on November 26, 1799''. A painting by Franz Roubaud | ''Assault of Gimry'' – Franz Roubaud |
Richet with Oliver Lodge, Frederic William Henry Myers and Julian Ochorowicz investigated the medium Eusapia Palladino in the summer of 1894 at his house in the Ile Roubaud in the Mediterranean.