Studies at the Ursuline boarding school

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At the end of August 1712 in Varennes, young Marguerite d’Youville leaves her family for the Ursuline boarding school in Quebec City, where she will study for two years. These years of study are made possible thanks to her great-grandfather Pierre Boucher, who paid for her education. Marguerite brings with her, among other things, an object that we still have in the Grey Nuns collection: a box containing her traveling utensils.

Source: Travelling utensils, year 1713, from the Collections of the Grey Nuns of Montreal, 1973.G.097.1-2
Source: Gouache on cardboard by Sister Françoise Gravel, 1951, from the Collections of the Grey Nuns of Montreal, 1974.D.015