[1] She was the fourth of seven children of the evangelical church pastor of Lyon Adolphe Monod and his wife Hannah Honyman.

She published "The Farewell of Adolphe Monod to his friends and the Church",[3] several volumes of sermons, a collection of letters and a biography of her father.

It is thanks to her involvement with the Diaconesses de Reuilly that she left on 3 August 1870 for the front of Forbach fifteen days after the declaration of war.

After the defeat of Sedan, Sarah Monod went to London to raise funds and equipment, then returned to France and the ambulance to treat victims of the campaign of the Loire.

In Paris in 1889, on the sidelines of the World Expo, the first congress of works and women's institutions was held, organized by Isabelle Bogelot and Emilie de Morsier.

Members of the Committee included the great figures of Protestant Philanthropy: Julie Siegfried, Isabelle Bogelot and Emilie de Morsier.

Monod collaborated closely with two other activists pastors' daughters, Julie Siegfried (née Puaux) and Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger (granddaughter of François Guizot).

There was a tiny minority of socialists headed by Louise Saumoneau and Élisabeth Renaud, balanced by the Catholic Right led by Marie Maugeret.

[13] On 11 November 1911 Sarah Monod received the Legion of Honor from the hands of Senator Camille Ferdinand Dreyfus.

Sarah Monod was a member of journal L'Avant-Courriere (founded in 1893), and even joined the French Union for Women's Suffrage.

She was reluctant to join in actions and campaigns by some suffragists, but ready to "collaborate in all loyalty and all confidence with women from different walks of life, with different religious, philosophical or social views.