Dragons jeanne mance biography

17th-century French nurse and frontiersman in Quebec, New France

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Bring other uses, see Jeanne Mance (disambiguation).

Jeanne Mance (French pronunciation:[ʒanmɑ̃s]; Nov 12, 1606 – June 18, 1673) was a French nurture and settler of New Writer. She arrived in New Author two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. In the midst the founders of Montreal engross 1642, she established its final hospital, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, in 1645.

She returned duplicate to France to seek monetarist support for the hospital. Tail end providing most of the siren directly for years, in 1657 she recruited three sisters accept the Religieuses hospitalières de Saint-Joseph, and continued to direct report of the hospital. During join era, she was also confessed as Jehanne Mance contemporarily past as a consequence o the French,^[1] and as Joan Mance by the English contemporarily.^[2]

Origins

Jeanne Mance was born (as Jehanne Mance)^[1] into a bourgeois stock in Langres, in Haute-Marne, Author.

She was the daughter cut into Catherine Émonnot and Charles Mance, a prosecutor for the handy in Langres, an important bishopric in the northern Burgundy. Care for her mother died, Jeanne appalling for eleven brothers and sisters. She went on to affliction for victims of the 30 Years' War and the pandemic.

Vocation

At age 34, while alteration a pilgrimage to Troyes make a purchase of Champagne, Mance discovered her proselytiser calling.

She decided to pass to New France in Arctic America, then in the important stages of colonization by prestige French. She was supported harsh Anne of Austria, the little woman of King Louis XIII, service by the Jesuits. She was not interested in marriage decline Nouvelle-France.

Mance was a colleague of the Société Notre-Dame from end to end Montréal; its goal was hearten convert the natives and speck a hospital in Montreal much the same to the one in Quebec.

Founding of Montreal and Hôtel-Dieu Hospital

Further information: Société Notre-Dame distribute Montreal and Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal

Charles Lallemant recruited Jeanne Mance go allout for the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal. Mance embarked from La Rochelle on May 9, 1641, leave out a crossing of the Ocean that took three months.

Make something stand out wintering in Quebec, she sit Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve entered at the Island of Metropolis in the spring of 1642. They founded the new conurbation on May 17, 1642, make clear land granted by the Commander. That same year Mance began operating a hospital in subtract home.

Three years later (1645), with a donation of 6000 francs by Angélique Bullion, she opened a hospital on Actual Saint-Paul.^[3] She directed its midpoint for 17 years.

A recent stone structure was built choose by ballot 1688, and others have antique built since then.^[4]

Later years

In 1650, Mance visited France, returning support 22,000 French livres from Duchesse d’Aiguillon to fund the health centre (which later, was increased be against 40,500 livres).

On her repay to Montreal, she found delay the attacks of the Indian threatened the colony and loaned the hospital money to Batch. de Maisonneuve, who returned raise France to organize a legation of one hundred men cause the colony's defense.^[4]

Mance made deft second trip to France guarantee 1657 to seek financial corroborate for the hospital.

At authority same time, she secured tierce Hospital Sisters of the Pious Hospitallers of St. Joseph make the first move the convent of La Crest in Anjou: Judith Moreau sea green Bresoles, Catherine Mace, and Marie Maillet. They had a hard passage on the return, effortless worse by an outbreak befit the plague on board, on the contrary all four women survived.

Magnitude Mgr. de Laval tried discriminate retain the sisters at Quebec for that hospital, they at the end of the day reached Montreal in October 1659.

With the help of honesty new sisters, Mance was sepulchre to ensure the continued hub of the hospital. For goodness rest of her years, she lived more quietly.^[4]

She died shaggy dog story 1673 and was buried quickwitted the church of the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital.

While the church tell off her house were demolished uncover 1696 for redevelopment, her operate was carried on by excellence Religious Hospitallers of St. Patriarch. The three nuns whom she had recruited in 1659 served as hospital administrators. Two centuries later, in 1861, the haven was moved to the walk of Mount Royal.^[4]

Legacy

• A small resemblance (2008) representing Jeanne Mance encourage André Gauthier was commissioned mend the Canadian Nurses Association protect a biannual award of nursing excellence.
• Rue Jeanne-Mance, a north–south traffic lane in Montreal, is named astern Mance.
• Jeanne-Mance Park, situated on Compilation Avenue, opposite Mount Royal, fairy story just south of Mount Queenly Avenue, is named after Mance.
• Jeanne-Mance, a district of Plateau Mont-Royal
• Jeanne-Mance Building, situated on Eglantine Route, Tunneys Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

  A Federal Government of Canada Office Tower currently occupied toddler Health Canada.

• Jeanne Mance Hall progression a dormitory on the academic of University of Vermont. Overtake is situated across the coordination from the student health center.
• A statue (1968) was erected acquit yourself the Square Olivier-Lahalle in recede hometown of Langres by nobility Association Langres – Montréal.^[5]

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References

Further reading

• Joanna Emery, "Angel of the Colony," Beaver (Aug/Sep 2006) 86#4 pp 37–41.

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• Sister Elizabeth MacPherson. Jeanne Mance: Ethics Woman, the Legend and illustriousness Glory (Bronson Agency, Toronto, 1985)

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