Mance, Jeanne

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Mance, Jeanne

(born Nov. 12, 1606, Langres, France—died June 1673, Montreal) French founder of the first hospital in Montreal. A member of a French association that planned a utopian colony at Montreal, she sailed with the first settlers in 1641 and founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal in 1644. After a trip to France (1657), she returned with Sisters Hospitallers to staff the hospital.

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