French Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns

The list French Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns includes Mother Veronica of the Passion, Anne-Marie Javouhey, Marie Marguerite Françoise Hébert, Elizabeth of the Trinity and Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. The list consists of 115 members and 2 sublists.

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Mother Veronica of the Passion

19th-century English religious sister and foundress

Overview: Mother Mary Veronica of the Passion, O.C.D. (1 October 1823 – 11 November 1906) was a Roman Catholic nun who founded the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel, a religious congregation of the Discalced Carmelite ...

Date of birth: 1 October 1823

Date of death: 16 November 1906

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Gender: Female

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20th-century French nuns 30T

19th-century British Roman Catholic nuns 6T

19th-century French nuns 56T
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Anne-Marie Javouhey

19th century French nun

Overview: Saint Anne-Marie Javouhey (November 10, 1779 – July 15, 1851) was a French nun who founded the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Cluny. She is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church. She is known as the Liberator ...

Date of birth: 11 November 1779

Date of death: 15 July 1851

Age: 71 (age at death)

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19th-century venerated Christians 485T

French Roman Catholic saints 129T

1779 births 685T
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Bernadette Soubirous

French saint

Overview: Marie-Bernarde "Bernadette" Soubirous (Occitan: Bernadeta Sobirós; 7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879) was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes, France, and is venerated as a saint in the ...

Date of birth: 29 January 1844

Date of death: 16 April 1879

Age: 35 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Female

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Sisters of Charity of Nevers 6T

Tuberculosis deaths in France 109T

19th-century Christian mystics 69T
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Marie Marguerite Françoise Hébert

French wife of revolutionary leader

Overview: Marie Marguerite Françoise Hébert, née Marie Goupil (1756, Paris – 13 April 1794, Paris), was a figure in the French Revolution who died by guillotine during the Reign of Terror.

Date of birth: 1756

Date of death: 13 April 1794

Age: 37 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Female

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Nuns from Paris 11T

18th-century Christian nuns 14T

French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution 133T
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Marguerite Louise d'Orléans

Grand Duchess of Tuscany from 1670 to 1721

Overview: Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (28 July 1645 – 17 September 1721) was a Princess of France who became Grand Duchess of Tuscany, as the wife of Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici.

Date of birth: 28 July 1645

Date of death: 17 September 1721

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Female

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Royalty and nobility with disabilities 116T

Burials at Picpus Cemetery 19T

Grand Princesses of Tuscany 5T
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Elizabeth of the Trinity

French Carmelite nun and mystic

Overview: Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, OCD (French: Élisabeth de la Trinité), (July 18, 1880 – November 9, 1906) was a French Discalced Carmelite nun, mystic, and spiritual writer. She has been beatified by ...

Date of birth: 18 July 1880

Date of death: 9 November 1906

Age: 26 (age at death)

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19th-century Christian mystics 69T

20th-century Christian mystics 132T

French mystics 15T
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Louise de La Vallière

Mistress of Louis XIV (1644–1710)

Overview: Françoise Louise de La Vallière, Duchess of La Vallière and Vaujours, born Françoise Louise de La Baume Le Blanc de La Vallière, Mademoiselle de La Vallière (6 August 1644 – 7 June 1710) was a French ...

Date of birth: 6 August 1644

Date of death: 7 June 1710

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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17th-century French women writers 26T

18th-century French women writers 67T

Women autobiographers 496T
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Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan

Most celebrated maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XIV of France

Overview: Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan (Madame de Montespan; 5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707) was the most celebrated maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XIV, by whom she had ...

Date of birth: 5 October 1640

Date of death: 27 May 1707

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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Household of Maria Theresa of Spain 7T

Affair of the Poisons 27T

Mistresses of Louis XIV 17T
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Isabella of France

Queen consort of England

Overview: Isabella of France (1295 – 22 August 1358), sometimes described as the She-Wolf of France, was Queen of England as the wife of Edward II, and regent of England from 1326 until 1330. She was the y ...

Date of birth: 1295

Date of death: 22 August 1358

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Royalty

Gender: Female

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Daughters of kings 141T

14th-century French women 110T

14th-century English women 104T
10.

Therese of Lisieux

French Discalced Carmelite nun and saint (1873–1897)

Overview: Thérèse of Lisieux (French: sainte Thérèse de Lisieux), born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin (2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), also known as Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, was ...

Date of birth: 2 January 1873

Date of death: 30 September 1897

Age: 24 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Female

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19th-century French nuns 54T

Tuberculosis deaths in France 125T

19th-century Christian mystics 71T
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Marie Therese Vauzou

Overview: Marie-Thérèse Vauzou (August 10, 1825 – November 3, 1907) was a French Catholic nun who is known as being the Mistress of Novices and later Mother Superior at the Sisters of Charity of Nevers, during the ...

Date of birth: 10 August 1825

Date of death: 3 November 1907

Age: 82 (age at death)

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Sisters of Charity of Nevers 6T

20th-century Christian nuns 359T

French Roman Catholic saints 129T
12.

Léocadie Gascoin

Canadian mother superior

Overview: Léocadie Gascoin (March 1, 1818 – January 29, 1900) was the co-founder and superior of the Sisters Marianites of Holy Cross. Her name in the congregation was Marie des Sept-Douleurs.

Date of birth: 1 March 1818

Date of death: 29 January 1900

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Female

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19th-century Christian nuns 61T

Canadian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 51T

1818 births 1,640T
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Eugénie Blanchard

Oldest living person

Overview: Anne Eugénie Blanchard (16 February 1896 – 4 November 2010) was a French-Saint Barthélemy supercentenarian, who at the age of 7009362011680000000♠114 years, 261 days was the oldest living person ...

Date of birth: 16 February 1896

Date of death: 4 November 2010

Age: 114 (age at death)

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Former Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 30T

Third Order Regular Franciscans 36T

Curaçao people 45T
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Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon

French Religious Sister and foundress

Overview: The Venerable Mother Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon, F.M.I., (1789–1828) founded the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, or Marianist Sisters, a Roman Catholic religious institute of Religious Sisters and one ...

Date of birth: 10 June 1789

Date of death: 10 January 1828

Age: 38 (age at death)

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19th-century Christian nuns 61T

18th-century French women 58T

19th-century French women 48T
15.

Sœur Emmanuelle

Religious Sister and humanitarian

Overview: Sœur (Sister) Emmanuelle, N.D.S., (November 16, 1908 – October 20, 2008), was a Religious Sister of both Belgian and French origins, noted for her involvement in working for the plight of the poor ...

Date of birth: 16 November 1908

Date of death: 20 October 2008

Age: 99 (age at death)

Nationality: Belgian

Occupation: Activist

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20th-century Christian nuns 359T

Belgian Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns 15T

Grand Officiers of the Légion d'honneur 639T
16.

Joan of France, Duchess of Berry

French duchess

Overview: Joan of France (French: Jeanne de France, Jeanne de Valois; 23 April 1464 – 4 February 1505), was briefly Queen of France as wife of King Louis XII, in between the death of her brother, King Charles VIII ...

Date of birth: 23 April 1464

Date of death: 4 February 1505

Age: 40 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Gender: Female

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16th-century French women 50T

15th-century French women 95T

Members of the Third Order of Saint Francis 70T
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Léonie Martin

French nun (1863–1941)

Overview: Léonie Martin (3 June 1863 – 16 June 1941) was a French Roman Catholic nun who led a cloistered life as part of the Visitation Sisters. More notable is the fact that she is the daughter of Blessed Louis ...

Date of birth: 3 June 1863

Date of death: 16 June 1941

Age: 78 (age at death)

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19th-century Christian nuns 61T

20th-century Christian nuns 359T

French Servants of God 28T
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Marie-Renée Roudaut

french missionary

Overview: Marie-Renée Roudaut (3 March 1847 - 18 October 1930) was a Catholic missionary nun. With the name Mother Marie-Salomé she was the first Superior General of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa ...

Date of birth: 3 March 1847

Date of death: 18 October 1930

Age: 83 (age at death)

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Roman Catholic missionaries in Algeria 8T

Superiors general 29T

French emigrants to Algeria 8T
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Mother Mary Of The Passion

Catholic Religious Sister, missionary, and foundress

Overview: Hélène Marie Philippine de Chappotin de Neuville (Nantes, 21 May 1839 – Sanremo, 15 November 1904), known as the Blessed Mary of the Passion, F.M.M. (French: Mère Marie de la Passion) was a French Religious ...

Date of birth: 21 May 1839

Date of death: 15 November 1904

Age: 65 (age at death)

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Franciscan Missionaries of Mary 5T

Breton beatified people 11T

Venerated Catholics by Pope John Paul II 362T
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Leonie Aviat

Roman Catholic nun

Overview: Saint Léonie Aviat (16 September 1844 in Sézanne, Marne, France – 10 January 1914 in Perugia, Italy) was a Roman Catholic religious sister who co-founded the congregation of the Oblate Sisters of St. ...

Date of birth: 16 September 1844

Date of death: 10 January 1914

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Female

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Venerated Catholics by Pope John Paul II 362T

Superiors general 29T

Canonizations by Pope John Paul II 101T