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Marie-Anne Benoist de Joinville

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Marie-Anne Benoist de Joinville

Birth
Oka, Laurentides Region, Quebec, Canada
Death
6 Oct 1832 (aged 77)
Bourges, Departement du Cher, Centre, France
Burial
Bourges, Departement du Cher, Centre, France Add to Map
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Marie-Anne Benoist de Joinville was born near Oka, Québec on 8 June 1755 and baptized by an army chaplain on the 28th of that month.

She never married, but as an adult lived with her family in Bourges, France. She, her sister Marie-Françoise Benoist de Courville, and their mother were imprisoned in the Couvent des Ursulines during the Revolution for having harbored Catholic religious in their home. Her mother died while in captivity, but she and her sister were eventually freed in October 1795.

She died in the Rue Porte-Saint-Jean, Bourges on 6 October 1832 and was buried with other members of her family in the church of Saint-Outrille-du-Château.
Marie-Anne Benoist de Joinville was born near Oka, Québec on 8 June 1755 and baptized by an army chaplain on the 28th of that month.

She never married, but as an adult lived with her family in Bourges, France. She, her sister Marie-Françoise Benoist de Courville, and their mother were imprisoned in the Couvent des Ursulines during the Revolution for having harbored Catholic religious in their home. Her mother died while in captivity, but she and her sister were eventually freed in October 1795.

She died in the Rue Porte-Saint-Jean, Bourges on 6 October 1832 and was buried with other members of her family in the church of Saint-Outrille-du-Château.


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