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==Personal life== Masaryk married [[Charlotte Garrigue]] in 1878, and took her family name as his middle name. They met in [[Leipzig]], Germany, and became engaged in 1877. Garrigue was born in [[Brooklyn]] to a Protestant family with French [[Huguenots]] among their ancestors. She became fluent in Czech and published articles in a Czech magazine.<ref>see publications: Charlotta Garrigue Masaryková (Charlie Masaryková): „O Bedřichu Smetanovi“ (About B. Smetana), články v Naší době 1893 (Articles in Journal „Naše doba“ 1893), Epilogue Miloslav Malý, Masarykovo demokratické hnutí (issued by Masaryk's Democratic Movement, Prague, 2-nd edition), Praha 1993</ref> Hardships during the World War I took their toll, and she died in 1923. Their son, [[Jan Masaryk|Jan]], was a Czechoslovak ambassador in London, [[foreign minister]] in the Czechoslovak government-in-exile (1940–1945) and in the governments from 1945 to 1948. They had four other children: Herbert, [[Alice Masaryková|Alice]], Eleanor, and Olga. Born and raised a [[Catholic]], Masaryk later became a [[Protestant]]; first joining the [[Reformed Church in Austria]] and later the [[Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren]] in 1918 upon Czechoslovak independence, but he was mostly non-practising and rarely attended religious services.<ref name="rozhlas">{{cite web|url=http://www.rozhlas.cz/nabozenstvi/mezinebem/_zprava/masarykuv-vztah-k-nabozenstvi--1464205 |title=Masarykův vztah k náboženství |date=7 March 2015 |language=cs |publisher=rozhlas.cz |access-date=18 July 2016}}</ref> His conversion was influenced by the 1870 declaration of [[papal infallibility]] and by his wife Charlotte, who was raised as a [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]].<ref name="HaanDaskalova2006">{{cite book|author1=Francisca de Haan|author2=Krasimira Daskalova|author3=Anna Loutfi|title=Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th Centuries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hsgQjbgBOAkC&pg=PA306|access-date=2013-08-07|year=2006|publisher=Central European University Press|isbn=978-963-7326-39-4|pages=306–}}</ref>
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