1. Jeanne Mance arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec.
13 Facts About Jeanne Mance
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Jeanne Mance returned twice to France to seek financial support for the hospital.
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Jeanne Mance was born into a bourgeois family in Langres, in Haute-Marne, France.
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Jeanne Mance was the daughter of Catherine Emonnot and Charles Mance, a prosecutor for the king in Langres, an important diocese in the northern Burgundy.
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Jeanne Mance went on to care for victims of the Thirty Years' War and the plague.
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At age 34, while on a pilgrimage to Troyes in Champagne, Jeanne Mance discovered her missionary calling.
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Jeanne Mance decided to go to New France in North America, then in the first stages of colonization by the French.
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Jeanne Mance was supported by Anne of Austria, the wife of King Louis XIII, and by the Jesuits.
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Jeanne Mance was a member of the Societe Notre-Dame de Montreal; its goal was to convert the natives and found a hospital in Montreal similar to the one in Quebec.
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That same year Jeanne Mance began operating a hospital in her home.
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In 1650, Jeanne Mance visited France, returning with 22,000 French livres from Duchesse d'Aiguillon to fund the hospital.
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Jeanne Mance made a second trip to France in 1657 to seek financial assistance for the hospital.
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Jeanne Mance died in 1673 and was buried in the church of the Hotel-Dieu Hospital, her hospital.