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Madame de la Peltrie

The Saint-Joseph arrives with the wealth of Marie de la Peltrie
Accompanying the first five nuns to Canada, are two more interesting ladies, the enormously wealthy Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny, known as Marie de la Peltrie—a widow at a young age, she lived with the sisters but never became a nun. So great was her wealth that when the ship to the new-world could not handle all her belongings, she hired an entire additional ship, Saint-Joseph, to carry her, the nuns and her belongings to the new world. Along with her came Françoise’s old friend from the convent in Mortagne, Perche, France—none other than the rotund Sister Marie-Claude, who again takes on the role of Françoise’s friend and confidant.
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