Editing Allan Kardec (section)

==Early life==
Rivail was born in [[Lyon]] in 1804 and raised as a [[Roman Catholic]]. He pursued interests in philosophy and the sciences, and became an acolyte and colleague of [[Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi]].<ref name=proceedings/><ref>Eliane Rezende Garcia. [http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/pontoevirgula/article/viewFile/13913/10237 ''A Educação: saber e sabor na relação entre sujeitos''] (In Portuguese). Ponto-e-Vírgula, 10: 282–285, 2011. PUC-SP. {{ISSN|1982-4807}}.</ref> Rivail completed a [[Bachelor of Arts]]<ref>Kardec, A. (1860b). Formation de la terre. Théorie de l'incrustation planétaire. Revue Spirite – Journal d’Études Psychologiques<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed, if any --></ref> and a [[doctorate]] in medicine.<ref>Allan Kardec (a), a compilation of short works entitled Christian Spiritism (Philadelphia: Allan Kardec Educational Society, 1985), p. 189</ref> He was also fluent in German, English, Italian, and Spanish, in addition to his native French.<ref>Janet Duncan, Translator's Preface to Allan Kardec's The Gospel According to Spiritism (London: Headquarters Publishing, 1987), pp. ix–x<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed --></ref> Kardec became interested in Protestantism after his education in Switzerland.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ua9ZAAAAYAAJ&q=%22interested%20in%20protestantism%22 | isbn=9780391042407 | title=Introduction to the U.S. Latina and Latino Religious Experience | year=2004 | publisher=Brill Academic Publishers }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bhvlAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22allan+kardec%22+%22protestant%22&pg=PA194 | isbn=9780292774711 | title=Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800–1876 | date=6 March 2009 | publisher=University of Texas Press }}</ref> He was also trained in [[Positivism|positivist]] ideas, although he ended up not being an orthodox positivist.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Lindsay |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ODIOAQAAMAAJ |title=Encyclopedia of Religion |date=2005 |publisher=Macmillan Reference USA |isbn=978-0-02-865734-9 |pages=5089 |language=en |quote=In short, Rivail was a typical European scholar of his time, with a classical training in letters, positivist beliefs, an interest in the theoretical and applied development of science, and a professional specialization in teaching. But Rivail was not an orthodox positivist. Imbued with a great curiosity about phenomena unheeded and even shunned by official science, he belonged to the French Society of Magnetists. Hypnotism, sleepwalking, clairvoyance, and similar phenomena strongly attracted him.}}</ref>