Marie-Jeanne-Madeleine
LEGARDEUR
(b.
31 January 1698
,
Montréal, Canada, New France
d.
25 February 1739
,
Québec, Canada, New France
)
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Marie-Jeanne-Madeleine LEGARDEUR was born 31 January 1698 in Montréal, Canada, New France
Marie-Jeanne-Madeleine LEGARDEUR was the child of Pierre LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY and Agathe CHAMPOUX dite SAINT PERE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Baptiste LEGARDEUR and Marguerite NICOLET (maternal) Jean CHAMPOUX dit SAINT PERE and Mathurine GAUDET (GODET)Marie-Jeanne-Madeleine LEGARDEUR died 25 February 1739 in Québec, Canada, New France .
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Marie-Jeanne-Madeleine LEGARDEUR was a Ursuline nun.
Marie-Jeanne-Madeleine LEGARDEUR was a Ursuline nun.
Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changesFrom its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.
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1698 Birth 31 January 1698
Montréal, Canada, New France
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LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY, MARIE-JEANNE-MADELEINE, dite de Sainte-Agathe, Ursuline nun; baptized 31 Jan. 1698 at Montreal, daughter of Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny and Agathe de Saint-Père*; d. 25 Feb. 1739 at the Ursuline convent in Quebec.
After her studies at the boarding-school of the Ursulines of Quebec, Madeleine Legardeur returned to her family, and soon began to shine in Montreal society. She was to marry her cousin, an officer in the colonial regular troops, but he died accidentally. At first she was deeply afflicted; then she began once more to frequent balls and promenades. In July 1717, perhaps because she had not recovered her peace of mind, she asked to be admitted to the Ursuline order of Quebec.
The annals of the convent relate that during the first years she underwent “the most violent temptations to renounce her vocation.” To overcome them, she placed her trust in Notre-Dame du Grand Pouvoir; the annals add that her fits of anguish vanished. Mother...Read MORE...
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY, MARIE-JEANNE-MADELEINE, dite de Sainte-Agathe, Ursuline nun; baptized 31 Jan. 1698 at Montreal, daughter of Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny and Agathe de Saint-Père*; d. 25 Feb. 1739 at the Ursuline convent in Quebec.
After her studies at the boarding-school of the Ursulines of Quebec, Madeleine Legardeur returned to her family, and soon began to shine in Montreal society. She was to marry her cousin, an officer in the colonial regular troops, but he died accidentally. At first she was deeply afflicted; then she began once more to frequent balls and promenades. In July 1717, perhaps because she had not recovered her peace of mind, she asked to be admitted to the Ursuline order of Quebec.
The annals of the convent relate that during the first years she underwent “the most violent temptations to renounce her vocation.” To overcome them, she placed her trust in Notre-Dame du Grand Pouvoir; the annals add that her fits of anguish vanished. Mother...Read MORE...
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
1715 - September 1 - Louis XV becomes King of France
1739 Death 25 February 1739
Québec, Canada, New France
She died at the age of 41.
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