Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie [SEP] religious order
Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie
Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie (1603 – 18 November 1671) was a French woman who started the Order of Ursulines of Quebec.
Life.
Marie-Madeleine Chauvigny (also known as: de la Peltrie) was born in 1603 at Alençon, France, the daughter of Guillaume de Chauvigny, Sieur d’Alençon et de Vaubougon, and of Lady Jeanne Du Bouchet. With no male heir, Guillaume de Chauvigny tried to arrange aristocratic matches for his daughters.
Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie (1603–1671), Frenchwoman who helped to establish the Ursuline Order in Quebec
- Marie Madeleine de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1645–1704), French abbess, better known as Gabrielle de Rochechouart
- places
- Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Quebec, parish municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada
- Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Roman Catholic church in Paris
See also.
- Marie-Magdeleine, oratorio (Drame Sacré) in three acts and four parts by Jules