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Coming Soon! Jeanne’s Gift: Finding Home

Dear Subscriber.

The past two years have been most challenging – physically and mentally — for all of us.  Hopefully spring brings a renewal of hope and promise for better things to come (and for lasting peace in Ukraine as well) !

Despite the perturbations brought by the pandemic and by life in general, I have been able to continue working on the sequel to my book on my ancestor Jeanne Chevalier.  I was certainly helped along the way with thoughts of how Jeanne and the other Filles du Roi and their families had to endure an even harder, more challenging life in 17th century Quebec!

And now, I am happy to announce that the book is just about ready to be published.  What started out as an attempt to  [⇒]

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My research on Jeanne Chevalier continues

At the end of the book about the life of Jeanne that I published in November, 2016, I made two promises.  The first was to continue my research on her life and that of her three husbands in order to fill in the holes of information and to resolve the remaining mysteries.  The second, to tell the stories of the numerous extraordinary adventures  [⇒]

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Another Jeanne — Jeanne Savonnet

Monument in Rivière-Ouelle Cemetery

While I have spent the last several years researching the history of Jeanne Marguerite Chevalier, my eighth great grandmother, there is at least one other Jeanne whose story should be included in this blog.  That’s Jeanne Savonnet. The life of this second Jeanne is more well-known than the life of Jeanne Marguerite, but there are several parallels between the two. [⇒]

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Jeanne Chevalier, Fille du Roi: Son Histoire

Finally, the story of Jeanne Marguerite Chevalier is available in French!  Thanks to a wonderful team of translators and editors, I am very happy to announce the publication of the book:  Jeanne Chevalier, Fille du Roi : Son histoire.

The book is available as a paperback and e-book on the Internet at www.amazon.fr, at  www.amazon.ca and at www.amazon.com .

It is also available at Le Plumier, 22 24 Rue Saint-Jacques in Dieppe, France.

I hope you will find her story as captivating as I did!   Please feel free to email me your comments!

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Jeanne Chevalier, Fille du Roi: Her Story — Now Available

The first time I heard the name of Jeanne Marguerite Chevalier was over twenty years ago.  A book about her life started to take shape in my head roughly eight years later, in 2002.  Preliminary research followed.  The drive to learn more about Jeanne and write her story, however, only  became an obsession one cold February day in 2011 when I stood in St. Nicolas church in Coutances where she was baptized on June 8, 1643.   And now, finally, I am happy to announce the publication of this first version of the history of her life, just one day before the 300th anniversary of her death.

Jeanne Chevalier, Fille du Roi: Her Story is now available at http://www.harvard.com for purchase in the United States and Canada. book-cover [⇒]

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November 2, 2016 — The Latest News

After months of silence, I am back writing for my blog and along the way, have run into some problems.  I would like to apologize for any strange announcements that you might have received from my blog.  I hope that we have resolved them and there won’t be any new “glitches.”

Silence has not meant absence of progress, rest assured.   [⇒]

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Introducing Jeanne Chevalier, Fille du Roi

In June, 1671, 28-year-old Jeanne Marguerite Chevalier boarded a ship in Dieppe harbor.  She was leaving France forever and was headed for Quebec.  Although single and orphaned, she was not alone on the ship since there were one hundred other women also bound for Quebec that year. In fact, over the course of ten years beginning in 1663, 770 women would have left France, most of them, like Jeanne, never to return. [⇒]