Maison marie rollet biography
Marie Rollet was born in Paris, probably about , and would have witnessed a lot of turmoil, brought about by the Religious Wars that had plagued France for.!
Marie Rollet
Marie Rollet | |
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Statue of Marie Rollet at Parc Montmorency, Quebec City, Canada | |
Born | Saint-Sulpice, Paris |
Died | 1649 (1650) Quebec City |
Nationality | French |
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Occupation | pioneer |
Known for | One of the first French settlers in Quebec |
Marie Rollet was a French woman and early settler in Quebec.
Her second husband, Louis Hébert, was apothecary to Samuel Champlain's expeditions to Acadia and Quebec on 1606 and 1610–13. When she and her three surviving children traveled with her husband to Quebec in 1617,[1] she became the first European woman to settle in Quebec.
Après le retour des Français, en , sa maison devint le foyer des jeunes Amérindiennes confiées aux Jésuites pour leur éducation.
Her eldest daughter Anne's marriage to Étienne Jonquet in 1618 was the first recorded in Quebec. While Anne died in childbirth in 1619, she left many descendants through her other two children.
According to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Hébert routinely provided medical treatment to First