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Excerpt from Le Normands au Canada: France Et Canada; Dieppe-Quebec (1639); Quebec-Dieppe (1912)
Et ce qu'il y a de plus etonnant, c'est qu'il v eut parmi ces Religieuses de Dieppe une sainte emulation a qur irait se devouer pour la mission du Canada. Il fallait pourtant se homer; et le choix des directrices tomba sur quatre d'entre elles, dont la plus agee, Marie Guenet, n'avait pas trente ans. C'etait la fille d'un riche banquier de Rouen, membre de la Compagnie des Cent Associes. Elle fut la premiere superieure de la petite communaute augustine de Quebec.. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
