Todays Birthday ! Jeanne Mance (1606) Mance was a member of a - TopicsExpress



          

Todays Birthday ! Jeanne Mance (1606) Mance was a member of a French association that planned a utopian colony at Montreal. With the support of the French queen, Anne of Austria, she sailed with the first settlers in 1641. Mance, who had cared for victims of the Thirty Years War and the plague while in France, opened Montreals first hospital, the Hôtel-Dieu, in 1644. In 1650, she visited France and returned with a large donation meant to fund the hospital. Rather than use it for its intended purpose, Mance did what with the money? More... Discuss
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 07:27:13 +0000

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