Helene boulle biography
- Hélène, dite de Saint-Augustin (Champlain), founder of the Ursulines of Meaux (France); b.
- Helene BOULLE, 1598 - 1654 Helene BOULLE was born in 1598, in birth place.
- Hélène Boullé (ou Hélène de Champlain après son mariage) née en 1600 à Paris et décédée le 20 décembre 1654 à Meaux (France), est fondatrice des Ursulines.
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OTD: 40-year-old Samuel Champlain signs marriage contract with 12-year-old Hélène Boullé
On today’s date in 1610, Samuel de Champlain, 40, signed a marriage contract with 12-year-old Hélène Boullé, who was the daughter of Nicolas Boullé, a wealthy secretary to King Louis XIII.
Boullé’s father was “a man of the high bourgeoisie in Paris, with a job at the very heart of the royal regime,” according to David Hackett Fischer’s 2009 biography, Champlain’s Dream.
Boullé offered a dowry of 6,000 livres, of which 4,500 was given at beginning of the marriage. Champlain agreed to pay 1,800 livres a year to support his wife when he was out of the country.
“She was so young that all of the contracting parties agreed that the marriage could not be consummated for two years,” writes Fischer. “Hélène would continue to live in her parents’ home through that period and move to her husband’s home when she was fourteen.”
The contract, which was arranged on Dec. 27, 1610, required Boullé and Champlain to “take each other i
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Hélène Boullé (abt. 1598 - 1654)
HélèneBoullé
Daughter of Nicolas (Boulle) Boullé and Marguerite Allix
Sister of Marguerite Boullé, Nicolas Boullé, Marie Boullé, Jean Boullé and Eustache Boullé
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Hélène Boullé a des origines françaises.
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Hélène Boullé est l'épouse de Samuel de Champlain et fondatrice des Ursulines de Meaux (France), née en 1598 à Paris de Nicolas Boullé, secrétaire de la Chambre du roi, et de Marguerite Alix, tous deux calvinistes, décédée et inhumée à Meaux, le 20 décembre 1654. [1][2]
Son frère Eustache est présent au mariage de Guillaume Couillard et Guillemette Hébert le 26 août 1621 à Québec.[3] Tanguay en dit ceci: Eustache Boullé, arrivé en 1618, était Lieutenant de Samuel de Champlain. Il passa en Italie après la reddition de Québec et se fit religieux de l'ordre des Minimes. Madame de Champlain qui l'aimait tendrement lui fou
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BOULLÉ, HÉLÈNE, dite de Saint-Augustin (Champlain), founder of the Ursulines of Meaux (France); b. 1598 in Paris, daughter of Nicolas Boullé, a secretary in the king’s household, and of Marguerite Alix, both of whom were Calvinists; d. and buried 20 Dec. 1654 at Meaux.
Of the four Boullé children Hélène was the most interesting. In 1610 she was given in marriage to Samuel de Champlain, 31 years her senior. As she had not yet reached the age of consent, the marriage contract required a lapse of two years before cohabitation of the couple. At first persistent in her beliefs, the young woman studied her husband’s religion and adopted the Catholic faith at the age of 14. In 1620 she decided to accompany M. de Champlain to Canada. At Tadoussac the traveller met her brother Eustache, who had been in America since 1618. As Champlain was almost continuously occupied with his duties as a commander, his wife found herself isolated and out of her element in an environment so different from Paris. Her habits did not lead her to frequent Mme Héber
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