put her in touch with Diane de Watteville, another Watcher, and soon a place of spiritual welcome and retreat was created in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. From this experience, the Pomeyrol Community was born in 1951. In the 1930s, Geneviève Micheli - a parishioner of Wilfred Monod at the Oratoire du Louvre in Paris - and the women who were to found the Grandchamp community had important links with Wilfred Monod, and all of them were Watchers. In 1938, Monod came to Grandchamp for a retreat. In 1944, Roger Schutz, later founder of the Taizé Community, wrote an Introduction to Community Life for what was then called the Evangelical Reformed Community of Cluny. The book is steeped in the meditation of the Beatitudes, and quotes Wilfred Monod several times. Elsewhere, Schutz writes: "In order to show solidarity with the Watchers, we have reworked our last Rule, which was of Franciscan importance, and we have gone so far as to use their expressions in the hope of linking ourselves on one point to a tradition which is certainly very new, but which is a response to one of the present needs of the Church. He wrote the little text that would become for Taizé, Pomeyrol and Grandchamp a summary of the Community Rule: Pray and work that He may reign Let your day's work and rest be enlivened by the Word of God Maintain in all things the inner silence to abide in Christ Penetrate yourself with the Spirit of the Beatitudes: Joy, Simplicity, Mercy A figure: Theodore Monod Wilfred Monod's son, Theodore Monod, played an important role in the foundation and support of the Watchers' Fraternity. A figure who has become a media figure, he has also been a singular witness. At the age of twenty, he gave his father a document in which, he wrote, "I listed a certain number of decisions that I had taken personally to orient my life". This was the occasion and the basis for the foundation of the Third Order. Very quickly called upon by the National Museum of Natural History to undertake numerous trips and missions throughout the world, he established a faithful correspondence with the Watchers, anxious to enlighten and support his companions. In 1927, while meditating in front of Charles de Foucauld's hermitage in the Hoggar, he exclaimed: "I found in the archives of the Tamanrasset post a large typewritten notebook in which Charles