Alice B. Tournier (1862-1930) was born in Strasbourg, France, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. She immigrated to the United States with her family in the early 1880s and they settled in South Orange, New Jersey. Tournier was a French teacher and translator. Sometime around 1895 she experienced healing of several longstanding illnesses through Christian Science treatment. She subsequently studied Christian Science with Mary Baker Eddy's student Laura Lathrop and joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 6, 1895. Her mother, Fannie P. Tournier (b. Buerckel), and her sister, Julie Tournier joined on July 4, 1896.
In the latter part of 1896, at Eddy's request, Tournier translated Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures into French, although that translation was not ultimately published. Tournier, her mother, and her sister all became Christian Science practitioners listed in The Christian Science Journal, Tournier maintaining her listing from 1898 until 1930. From 1909 through the remainder of her life, Tournier lived alternately for periods of time in Boston and in Paris, France. In the mid-1910s she served as First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Paris.
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Alice B. Tournier (1862-1930) was born in Strasbourg, France, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. She immigrated to the United States with her family in the early 1880s and they settled in South Orange, New Jersey. Tournier was a French teacher and translator. Sometime around 1895 she experienced healing of several longstanding illnesses through Christian Science treatment. She subsequently studied Christian Science with Mary Baker Eddy's student Laura Lathrop and joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 6, 1895. Her mother, Fannie P. Tournier (b. Buerckel), and her sister, Julie Tournier joined on July 4, 1896.
In the latter part of 1896, at Eddy's request, Tournier translated Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures into French, although that translation was not ultimately published. Tournier, her mother, and her sister all became Christian Science practitioners listed in The Christian Science Journal, Tournier maintaining her listing from 1898 until 1930. From 1909 through the remainder of her life, Tournier lived alternately for periods of time in Boston and in Paris, France. In the mid-1910s she served as First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Paris.
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