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Google Doodle Celebrates - Isabelle Gatti de Gamond's 184th Birthday | 28 July Today's Doodle honours Isabelle Gatti de Gamond, a Belgian teacher who was born 184 years ago. People think of her as one of the first feminists in Belgium, and she started the first secondary school for women in the country.  On this day in 1839, Gatti de Gamond was born in Paris. When she was five, her family moved to Brussels. After her mother died in 1854, de Gamond started looking for work to help support her family. She was a private teacher for a Polish noble family, which led her to study Ancient Greek, Latin, and philosophy.  When Gatti de Gamond went back to Brussels, she took classes paid for by the government and thought about how she could help more women go to school. She started the journal Women's Education (L'Education de la Femme) to share her ideas with the world.  In 1864, Gatti de Gamond worked with the city council to start Cours d'Éducation pour jeunes filles, which...