{{Short description|French pastor (1844–1904)}} {{Infobox person | name = Tommy Fallot | image = Tommy Fallot.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1844|10|04|df=y}} | birth_place = Fouday, Bas-Rhin, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|1904|09|03|1844|10|04|df=y}} | death_place = Mirabel-et-Blacons, Drôme, France | other_names = Lutheran pastor | known_for = Christian socialism }} '''Tommy Fallot''' (4 October 1844 – 3 September 1904) was a French pastor who is known as the founder of Christian socialism in France.
==Early years==
Tommy Fallot was born on 4 October 1844 in Fouday, Bas-Rhin.{{sfn|Tommy Fallot (1844-1904), BnF}} His grandfather was Daniel Legrand (1783–1859), an industrialist and Christian in Ban de la Roche, Alsace{{efn|Ban de la Roche was an ancient seigneurie, later a county, in Alsace. Fouday is one of its eight villages.}} who felt that the gospel message was primarily for the poor and unfortunate, despite their suffering. Fallot earned a doctorate in theology in Strasbourg in 1872. His thesis was on "The Poor and the Gospel". He spent four years as Lutheran pastor of Wildersbach, near the Ban de la Roche. He then left the Lutheran church and moved to Paris, where the Free Church had offered him a position.{{sfn|Tommy Fallot (1844-1904), Musée virtuel du Protestantisme}}
==Evangelist==
Tommy Fallot was pastor at the Chapelle du Nord, a church of the Reformed Church of France (''Église Réformée de France'') on the rue des Petits-Hôtels in Paris. From there he led a program of evangelization among the working people.{{sfn|Mary|2015}} He was influenced by the work of the English clergyman Robert Whitaker McAll, who held "moral conferences" to carry the message of the Gospel to the poorest people. This followed the Réveil movement that had earlier swept 19th century Europe.{{sfn|Tommy Fallot (1844-1904), Musée virtuel du Protestantisme}}
Fallot founded the French League for the Rehabilitation of Public Morality (''Ligue pour le relèvement de la moralité publique''), which gained widespread support in Paris and the provinces.{{sfn|Tommy Fallot (1844-1904), Musée virtuel du Protestantisme}} By 1878 the future feminist Jeanne Schmahl had become active in Fallot's League, which was mainly concerned with abolition of alcohol and pornography.{{sfn|Metz|2007}} From 1882 Fallot also addressed the issue of prostitution. This was the outcome of a meeting with Josephine Butler (1828–1906), who was undertaking a campaign in England against this scourge.{{sfn|Tommy Fallot (1844-1904), Musée virtuel du Protestantisme}}
Fallot began to adhere to socialist ideas, although condemning class warfare preached by leaders who "dream of revenge and conquest". Fallot founded the ''Cercle socialiste de la libre pensée chrétienne'', which in 1882 became the ''Société d’aide fraternelle et d’études sociales''.{{sfn|Tommy Fallot (1844-1904), Musée virtuel du Protestantisme}} In 1887 Fallot and the economist Charles Gide founded the Protestant Association for Practical Study of Social Questions (''Association protestante pour l'étude pratique des questions sociales''). The association considered the social impact of industrialization from the perspective of liberal economics. It took the view that these impacts were unavoidable and had to be treated on a case by case basis. The association published the Journal of Practical Christianity (''Revue du Christianisme pratique'').{{sfn|Œuvres sociales}} Fallot is considered to be the founder of the French "Social Christianity" movement.{{sfn|Tommy Fallot (1844-1904), BnF}}
Fallot's was concerned with the future of the church. His nephew and disciple Marc Boegner, quoted him as saying "The church will be catholic or will not be; the Christian will be protestant or will disappear... I henceforth consider myself a catholic Protestant." Fallot used the word "catholic" in the broad sense that the Anglicans use it, rather than as a synonym for Roman Catholic as commonly understood in France.{{sfn|Hill|Monsarrat|1999|pp=46–47}} By 1890 Fallot, who was in poor health and disappointed at the lack of enthusiasm for his socialist ideas in the Protestant establishment, asked to be given a simple parish in the country. He spent the last ten years of his life as pastor of Sainte-Croix, and then Aouste, near Crest in the Drôme department.{{sfn|Tommy Fallot (1844-1904), Musée virtuel du Protestantisme}} Tommy Fallot died in Mirabel-et-Blacons, Drôme on 3 September 1904.{{sfn|Tommy Fallot (1844-1904), BnF}}
==Selected publications==
{{refbegin}} *{{cite book|author1=Alfred Boegner|author2=Tommy Fallot|title=Pour la vie intérieure: la prière: conseils et expériences}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=Les pauvres et l'Evangile (thesis) |year=1872|page=51}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=La religion laïque, religion du Père: discours |year=1883}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=La reglementation de la prostitution. Lettre au redacteur en chef du journal "Le Havre". |year=1885|publisher=Fischbacher|page=81}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=La femme esclave: Conférence|pages=81 |year=1884|publisher=Fédér. Brit. Continent|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k759483}} *{{cite book|author1=Tommy Fallot|author2=Emile Dietz|author3=Charles Boegner|title=A la mémoire de Madame Pauline-Emma Steinheil: discours prononcés aux obsèques |year=1886|publisher=Typographie de G. Fischbach|page=21}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=Madame Caroline de Barrau de Muratel |year=1889|publisher=impr. Blind-Franck|page=9}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=Ligue française pour le relèvement de la moralité publique. Notre nouvelle campagne |year=1891|publisher=Fischbacher|page=55|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5530983d}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot |title=Communication sur l'organisation de la lutte contre la pornographie: faite au congrès de l'Association protestante pour l'étude pratique des questions sociales. Marseille, 28 et 29 octobre 1891 |year=1891|publisher=impr. de V.-E. Gauthier|page=52|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k758313 }} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=Simple explication, trois lettres à un ami, par T. Fallot |year=1893|publisher=impr. de J. Céas et fils|page=103}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=Ligue française de la moralité publique. Rapport par T. Fallot,... |year=1894|publisher=impr. de J. Céas|page=7}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=Qu'est-ce qu'une église?: Un chapitre de christianisme pratique |year=1897|publisher=Fischbacher (1926 edition)|page=212}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=Pour aider à l'organisation de l'effort missionnaire en France |year=1899}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=Le Dieu Masqué: entretiens d'un pasteur avec une mère de famille |year=1902|publisher=A. Ducros|page=72}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=Une Noble entreprise, l'Union internationale des amies de la jeune fille |year=1902|publisher=A. Ducros|page=119|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5497361b}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=Le livre de l'action bonne |year=1906|publisher=Fischbacher}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=Comment lire la Bible jour après jour |year=1909|publisher=Libairie Fishbacher|page=515}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=Christianisme social, études et fragments |year=1911|publisher=Fischbacher|page=344}} *{{cite book|author1=Charles Wagner|author2=Tommy Fallot|author3=John Viénot|title=Sur l'éducation religieuse: pensées et fragments inédits |year=1923|publisher=aux bureaux de l'Union nationale des églises réformées de France|page=31}} *{{cite book|author=Tommy Fallot|title=Protestantisme et socialisme |date=2011-10-01|publisher=Ampelos Editions|isbn=978-2-35618-038-4|page=144}} {{refend}}
==References== {{notelist}} {{reflist |colwidth=30em}}
==Sources== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cMvCBD69TE8C&pg=PA46 |last1=Hill|first1=Christopher|last2=Monsarrat|first2=J.-P. |title="Appelés à témoigner et à servir": l'affirmation commune de Reuilly : dialogue entre les églises anglicanes de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande et les églises luthériennes et réformés de France |year=1999|publisher=Editions Olivetan|isbn=978-2-85304-147-8|chapter=Un panorama des relations entre l'église d'Angleterre et les églises réformées en France}} *{{cite web|url=http://temples.free.fr/paris/la_rencontre2.htm|work=Les temples protestants de France|language=French |last=Mary|first=Jacques|title=Historique de la Chapelle du Nord à Paris|year=2015|access-date=2015-03-25}} *{{cite journal |url=http://www.archivesdufeminisme.fr/ressources-en-ligne/articles-et-comptes-rendus/articles-historiques/metz-jeanne-schmahl-loi-libre-salaire-femme/ |last=Metz|first=Annie|title=Jeanne Schmahl et la loi sur le libre salaire de la femme|language=French |journal= Bulletin du Archives du Féminisme|issue=13|date=December 2007|access-date=2015-03-22}} *{{cite web|ref={{harvid|Œuvres sociales}}|url=https://www.museeprotestant.org/notice/oeuvres-sociales/ |title=Œuvres sociales|work=Musée virtuel du Protestantisme |language=French|access-date=2015-03-25}} *{{cite web|ref={{harvid|Tommy Fallot (1844-1904), BnF}}|url=https://data.bnf.fr/13002236/tommy_fallot/ |title=Tommy Fallot (1844-1904)|publisher=BnF|language=French|access-date=2015-03-25}} *{{cite web|ref={{harvid|Tommy Fallot (1844-1904), Musée virtuel du Protestantisme}}|url=https://www.museeprotestant.org/notice/tommy-fallot-1844-1904/ |title=Tommy Fallot (1844-1904)|work=Musée virtuel du Protestantisme|access-date=2015-03-25}} {{refend}}
==Further reading== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book|last=Jonac|first=Emile|title=Tommy Fallot et le ministère pastoral: Essai pratique|year=1912|publisher=Richter|page=93}} {{refend}}
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