Hélène’s World: Hélène Desportes of Seventeenth-Century Quebec

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Hélène Desportes, born in 1620, was once the first child of French parents to be born in Quebec and to live on. For nine years, she lived in Samuel de Champlain’s Habitation. In 1629, the little settlement was once captured by the English. Hélène, along side nearly all of the other French settlers, was once put on an English ship and taken to France. She returned to Quebec in 1634 and spent the rest of her life within the little colony. She was once married twice, had fifteen children, and seventy grandchildren. No portrait of Hélène exits. There are no memoirs, no diaries, nor any letters to lead the biographer. Then again, there are public records and other number one sources from which we may be able to piece together her life. This, then, is her remarkable story, set against the backdrop of France’s efforts to establish a colony within the New World along the banks of the St. Lawrence River.

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