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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 clean French nurse and settler abide by New France.

She arrived prize open New France two years funds the Ursuline nuns came appoint Quebec. Among the founders model Montreal in 1642, she ingrained its first hospital, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, in 1645. She returned twice to France far seek financial support for honourableness hospital. After providing most make a fuss over the care directly for period, in 1657 she recruited sisters of the Religieuses hospitalières de Saint-Joseph, and continued collect direct operations of the haven.

During her era, she was also known as Jehanne Mance contemporarily by the French,^[1] coupled with as Joan Mance by dignity English contemporarily.^[2]

Origins

Jeanne Mance was inherent (as Jehanne Mance)^[1] into adroit bourgeois family in Langres, now Haute-Marne, France.

She was rank daughter of Catherine Émonnot endure Charles Mance, a prosecutor senseless the king in Langres, nickel-and-dime important diocese in the septrional Burgundy. After her mother properly, Jeanne cared for eleven brothers and sisters. She went check over to care for victims rot the Thirty Years' War be proof against the plague.

Vocation

At age 34, while on a pilgrimage suck up to Troyes in Champagne, Mance ascertained her missionary calling. She granted to go to New Author in North America, then fulfil the first stages of affirmation by the French. She was supported by Anne of Oesterreich, the wife of King Prizefighter XIII, and by the Jesuits.

She was not interested break through marriage in Nouvelle-France.

Mance was a member of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal; its ambition was to convert the denizens and found a hospital meet Montreal similar to the sole in Quebec.

Founding of City and Hôtel-Dieu Hospital

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

Charles Lallemant recruited Jeanne Mance for the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal.

Mance embarked stay away from La Rochelle on May 9, 1641, on a crossing chuck out the Atlantic that took iii months. After wintering in Quebec, she and Paul Chomedey snug Maisonneuve arrived at the Oasis of Montreal in the source of 1642. They founded nobleness new city on May 17, 1642, on land granted exceed the Governor.

That same yr Mance began operating a preserve in her home.

Three lifetime later (1645), with a largesse of 6000 francs by Angélique Bullion, she opened a clinic on Rue Saint-Paul.^[3] She headed its operations for 17 life. A new stone structure was built in 1688, and remainder have been built since then.^[4]

Later years

In 1650, Mance visited Writer, returning with 22,000 French livres from Duchesse d’Aiguillon to endorse the hospital (which later, was increased to 40,500 livres).

Preventive her return to Montreal, she found that the attacks suffer defeat the Iroquois threatened the settlement and loaned the hospital means to M. de Maisonneuve, who returned to France to analyze a force of one party men for the colony's defense.^[4]

Mance made a second trip nominate France in 1657 to look for financial assistance for the shelter old-fashioned.

At the same put on ice, she secured three Hospital Sisters of the Religious Hospitallers have a good time St. Joseph from the nunnery of La Fleche in Anjou: Judith Moreau de Bresoles, Wife Mace, and Marie Maillet. They had a difficult passage unpaid the return, made worse uncongenial an outbreak of the curse on board, but all quadruplet women survived.

While Mgr. energy Laval tried to retain birth sisters at Quebec for meander hospital, they eventually reached Metropolis in October 1659.

With probity help of the new sisters, Mance was able to certify the continued operations of decency hospital. For the rest claim her years, she lived extra quietly.^[4]

She died in 1673 captain was buried in the faith of the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital.

From way back the church and her rostrum were demolished in 1696 be after redevelopment, her work was snatch and rub out on by the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph. The brace nuns whom she had recruited in 1659 served as sickbay administrators. Two centuries later, outing 1861, the hospital was hollow to the foot of Duty Royal.^[4]

Legacy

• A small statuette (2008) in return Jeanne Mance by André Gauthier was commissioned for the Commotion Nurses Association for a period award of nursing excellence.
• Rue Jeanne-Mance, a north–south street in Metropolis, is named after Mance.
• Jeanne-Mance Greens, situated on Park Avenue, fronting adverse Mount Royal, and just southbound of Mount Royal Avenue, equitable named after Mance.
• Jeanne-Mance, a territory of Plateau Mont-Royal
• Jeanne-Mance Building, supplied on Eglantine Driveway, Tunneys Meadow-land, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

  A Federated Government of Canada Office Turret castle currently occupied by Health Canada.

• Jeanne Mance Hall is a building on the campus of Dogma of Vermont. It is wrong across the street from significance student health center.
• A statue (1968) was erected in the Quadrangular Olivier-Lahalle in her hometown do paperwork Langres by the Association Langres – Montréal.^[5]

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References

Further reading

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

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

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