Marie-Madeleine Hachard née Hennebont (17 February 1704, Rouen - 9 August 1760, New Orleans) was a French letter writer and abbess of the Ursuline order. She was one of the first members of the first Ursuline Convent in New Orleans in French Louisiana in 1727. Her letters home to her father in France have been preserved, published, and are valued as a source of historical documentation.

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* ''De Rouen à la Louisiane : voyage d’une Ursuline en 1727'', foreword by

Jean-Pierre Chaline Jean-Pierre Chaline (18 December 1939, Orléans), is a French contemporary historian, a specialist of the history of the French Third Republic. Biography The father of Olivier Chaline, a historian specializing in Central Europe in the modern era ...

, Rouen, Association d'études normandes,

Mont-Saint-Aignan Mont-Saint-Aignan () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the region of Normandy, northwestern France. The inhabitants of the town of Mont-Saint-Aignan are called ''Mont-Saint-Aignanais'' in French. Due to the presence of higher educ ...

, publications of the Université de Rouen, 1988 ()

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Édouard Frère Édouard Frère (27 September 1797, Rouen – 7 April 1874, Rouen) was a French bookseller, archivist, biographer, and historian specialized in the Normandy area. Life The son and grandson of booksellers, Frère's father, Jacques-Christophe oper ...

, ''Manuel du bibliographe normand'', Rouen, Le Brument, 1860, * * Emily Clark, Voices from an early American convent : Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727 1760, Éd. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2007 () * Chantal Théry, « 1727-1728 De Rouen à La Nouvelle-Orléans. Correspondance et journal de bord de Marie-Madeleine Hachard de Saint-Stanislas », Femmes en toutes lettres : les épistolières du xviiie siècle, Éd. Marie-France Alberte Silver; Marie-Laure Girou-Swiderski, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2000 (in French) () * Chantal Théry, De plume et d’audace. Femmes de la Nouvelle-France, Montréal / Paris, éditions Triptyque / éditions du Cerf, 2006, 262 p. () Voir chap. 13 « De Rouen à La Nouvelle-Orléans : la relation de Marie-Madeleine Hachard » ; chap. 14 : «

Marie Tranchepain Marie Tranchepain, also known as Marie St. Augustin (ca. 1680–1733), was a French woman of the Ursulines, Order of St. Ursula and in 1727 sailed to New Orleans where she became the first Abbess, Mother Superior of the Old Ursuline Convent, New Orl ...

de Saint-Augustin ou l'art de la réplique » et textes en annexe. (in French)

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