A Touch of Fire, Volume 1: Marie-André Duplessis, the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec, and the Writing of New France by Thomas M. Carr

A Touch of Fire, Volume 1: Marie-André Duplessis, the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec, and the Writing of New France

McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant Le Canada

Thomas M. Carr

400 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography historical history informative reflective sad medium-paced
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Marie-Andr Duplessis (1687-1760) guided the Augustinian sisters at the H tel-Dieu of Quebec - the oldest hospital north of Mexico - where she was elected mother superior six times. Although often overshadowed by colonial nuns who became foundress...

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