When Mathilda Nicolina Laporte was born on 17 March 1856, in Switzerland, her father, Louis S. Laporte, was 27 and her mother, Marie Louisa Pavet, was 28. She died on 13 February 1908, at the age of 51.
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Jean Henru Dunant founded the Red Cross in Geneva.
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Pierre, Emile, Lucien, Cyprien, Flavien, Marcel, Rosaire, Sylvain, Adrien, Antoine, Armand.
French: topographic name for someone who lived near the gates of a fortified town, a variant of Porte 1, with fused feminine definite article la; or a habitational name from Laporte or La Porte, names of several places in various parts of France. Compare Delaporte .
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