Hubert de Monbrison, Count de Monbrison

Hubert de Monbrison was born in 1892 in Saint-Avertin (Indre-et-Loire) into a French-Irish Protestant family.

After his studies, he left as a lumberjack and herdsman on a ranch in Nevada (USA).

In 1914, he returned to France and ended the war with various military rewards.

After this conflict, he supported conscientious objectors, joined social Christianity, and met Pastor Henri Roser * and André Philip *.

On July 3, 1939, the Count de Monbrison , General Secretary of the Rescue for the Children of Political Refugees, put at the disposal of the OSE for a group of forty boys from Berlin, Quincy-sous-Sénart castle which already housed a few young people. Russian girls emigrated in 1917 and Spanish refugee girls.

[]https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1004611 From his marriage with a Jew, he will have four children, who will be educated at the College Cevennes from 1942.

In the 1950s, he moved to an agricultural estate in Tarn-et-Garonne where he founded one of the first dairy cooperatives in the southwest, Tempé-Lait in Montauban.