Editing Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (section)

=== Influence of his cousin Marguerite Teilard Chambon ===
{{Interlanguage link|Marguerite Teillard-Chambon|fr}}, (alias Claude Aragonnès) was a French writer who edited and had published three volumes of correspondence with her cousin, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, "La genèse d'une pensée" ("The Making of a Mind") being the last, after her own death in 1959.<ref name="letters1">{{Cite book |last=de Chardin |first=Teilhard |title=The Making of a Mind: Letters from a Soldier-Priest 1914–1919 |date=1965 |publisher=Collins |location=London}}</ref> She furnished each with an introduction. Marguerite, a year older than Teilhard, was considered among those who knew and understood him best. They had shared a childhood in [[Auvergne]]; she it was who encouraged him to undertake a doctorate in science at the Sorbonne; she eased his entry into the [[Institut Catholique de Paris|Catholic Institute]], through her connection to [[Emmanuel de Margerie]] and she introduced him to the intellectual life of Paris. Throughout the First World War, she corresponded with him, acting as a "midwife" to his thinking, helping his thought to emerge and honing it. In September 1959 she participated in a gathering organised at [[Saint-Babel]], near [[Issoire]], devoted to Teilhard's philosophical contribution. On the way home to [[Chambon-sur-Lac]], she was fatally injured in a [[road traffic accident]]. Her sister, Alice, completed the final preparations for the publication of the final volume of her cousin Teilhard's wartime letters.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Lettres de voyage 1923-1939, de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |date=1956 |publisher=Bernard Grasset |editor-last=Teillard-Chambon |editor-first=Marguerite |location=Paris |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Nouvelles lettres de voyage 1939-1955, de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |date=1957 |publisher=Bernard Grasset |editor-last=Teillard-Chambon |editor-first=Marguerite |location=Paris |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Genèse d'une pensée, Lettres 1914-1919, de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |date=1961 |publisher=Bernard Grasset |editor-last=Teillard-Chambon |editor-first=Marguerite |location=Paris |language=fr}}</ref>