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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.
Among the first successful French settlers were Marie Rollet and her husband, Louis Hébert, credited as "les premier agriculteurs du Canada" [10] by 1617. The first French child born in Quebec was Helene Desportes, in 1620, to Pierre Desportes and Francoise Langlois, whose father was a member of the Hundred Associates .
Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet had two daughters, Anne and Guillaumette, and one son, Guillaume. Guillaume married Hélène Desportes, said to be the first white child born in New France. [5] Guillaume and Hélène had a daughter, Françoise Hébert, and a son, Joseph who married Marie-Charlotte de Poytiers in 1660.
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George R. D. Goulet, 2007 (shown carrying the Métis Flag) and leading the Grand Entry at the Red River West celebration.. George Richard Donald Goulet is a Canadian Métis [1] author, [2] [3] historian, [4] Métis Scholar, [5] activist, [6] retired lawyer, [7] and recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
They arrived there in August 1665, and on 17 September 1669, Jarret married the twelve-year-old Marie Perrot on the Île d’Orléans. He was awarded a land grant on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River on 29 October 1672 in a seigneury called Verchères and thereafter continued to increase his landholdings. The couple was to have twelve ...
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Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan (née Genet; 2 October [1] 1752, Paris – 16 March 1822, Mantes) was a French educator, writer and Lady's maid.In the service of Marie Antoinette before and during the French Revolution, she was afterwards headmistress of the first Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur, appointed by Napoleon in 1807 to promote the education of girls.