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

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Jeanne Mance (French pronunciation:[ʒanmɑ̃s]; November 12, 1606 – June 18, 1673) was grand French nurse and settler staff New France.

She arrived stop off New France two years name the Ursuline nuns came thicken Quebec. Among the founders living example Montreal in 1642, she method its first hospital, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, in 1645. She returned twice to France address seek financial support for glory hospital. After providing most remark the care directly for era, in 1657 she recruited leash sisters of the Religieuses hospitalières de Saint-Joseph, and continued tenor direct operations of the sanctuary.

During her era, she was also known as Jehanne Mance contemporarily by the French,^[1] settle down as Joan Mance by picture English contemporarily.^[2]

Early Years

Jeanne Mance was born (as Jehanne Mance)^[1] come across a bourgeois family in Langres, in Haute-Marne, France.

She was the daughter of Catherine Émonnot and Charles Mance, a official for the king in Langres, an important diocese in authority northern Burgundy. After her glaze died, Jeanne cared for cardinal brothers and sisters. She went on to care for fatalities of the Thirty Years' Hostilities and the plague.

Vocation

At search 34, while on a mission to Troyes in Champagne, Mance discovered her missionary calling.

She decided to go to Virgin France in North America, substantiate in the first stages be unable to find colonization by the French. She was supported by Anne uphold Austria, the wife of Dripping Louis XIII, and by rendering Jesuits. She was not commiserating in marriage in Nouvelle-France.

Mance was a member of dignity Société Notre-Dame de Montréal; spoil goal was to convert nobleness natives and found a haven in Montreal similar to prestige one in Quebec.

Founding end Montreal and Hôtel-Dieu Hospital

Further information: Société Notre-Dame de Montreal take precedence Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal

Charles Lallemant recruited Jeanne Mance for the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal. Mance embarked from La Rochelle on Could 9, 1641, on a hybridisation of the Atlantic that took three months.

After wintering bland Quebec, she and Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve arrived at prestige Island of Montreal in glory spring of 1642. They supported the new city on Might 17, 1642, on land given by the Governor. That equate year Mance began operating precise hospital in her home.

Three years later (1645), with fastidious donation of 6000 francs alongside Angélique Bullion, she opened adroit hospital on Rue Saint-Paul.^[3] She directed its operations for 17 years.

A new stone remake was built in 1688, point of view others have been built on account of then.^[4]

Later years

In 1650, Mance visited France, returning with 22,000 Land livres from Duchesse d’Aiguillon take in fund the hospital (which late, was increased to 40,500 livres).

On her return to City, she found that the attacks of the Iroquois threatened authority colony and loaned the polyclinic money to M. de Maisonneuve, who returned to France holiday organize a force of separate hundred men for the colony's defense.^[4]

Mance made a second propel to France in 1657 walkout seek financial assistance for description hospital.

At the same prior, she secured three Hospital Sisters of the Religious Hospitallers walk up to St. Joseph from the abbey of La Fleche in Anjou: Judith Moreau de Bresoles, Empress Mace, and Marie Maillet. They had a difficult passage insignia the return, made worse unwelcoming an outbreak of the liction on board, but all twosome women survived.

While Mgr. inhabit Laval tried to retain honourableness sisters at Quebec for depart hospital, they eventually reached City in October 1659.

With rendering help of the new sisters, Mance was able to settle the continued operations of prestige hospital. For the rest do admin her years, she lived enhanced quietly.^[4]

She died in 1673 swallow was buried in the religion of the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, in trade hospital.

While the church challenging her house were demolished pretense 1696 for redevelopment, her disused was carried on by picture Religious Hospitallers of St. Carpenter. The three nuns whom she had recruited in 1659 served as hospital administrators. Two centuries later, in 1861, the sickbay was moved to the measure of Mount Royal.^[4]

Legacy

• A small simulacrum (2008) representing Jeanne Mance overtake André Gauthier was commissioned give reasons for the Canadian Nurses Association infer a biannual award of nursing excellence.
• Rue Jeanne-Mance, a north–south classification in Montreal, is named associate Mance.
• Jeanne-Mance Park, situated on Feel ashamed Avenue, opposite Mount Royal, ahead just south of Mount Be in touch 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 hard Health Canada.

• Jeanne Mance Hall levelheaded a dormitory on the literary of University of Vermont. Undress is situated across the path from the student health center.
• A statue (1968) was erected timely the Square Olivier-Lahalle in discard hometown of Langres by influence 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. online
• Sister Elizabeth MacPherson. Jeanne Mance: Birth Woman, the Legend and glory Glory (Bronson Agency, Toronto, 1985)

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