Anne Biget | |
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| Born | 1749 Thoraise, France |
| Died | 1824 Besançon, France |
| Occupation(s) | Nurse, nun |
Anne Biget, known as Sister Marthe (1749-1824), was a French nun and army nurse. [1]
She was originally a nun in Besançon. When the convents were dissolved in France in 1790, she worked as a nurse in Besançon. She became famous for the care she gave equally to soldiers of all nations during the Napoleonic wars, and was decorated by the rulers of France, Prussia, Austria and Russia.
The Nun's Story is a 1956 novel by Kathryn Hulme. It was a Book of the Month selection and reached #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list.
Jeanne Mance was a French nurse and settler of New France. She arrived in New France two years after the Ursuline nuns came to Quebec. Among the founders of Montreal in 1642, she established its first hospital, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, in 1645. She returned twice to France to seek financial support for the hospital. After providing most of the care directly for years, in 1657 she recruited three sisters of the Religieuses hospitalières de Saint-Joseph, and continued to direct operations of the hospital. During her era, she was also known as Jehanne Mance contemporarily by the French, and as Joan Mance by the English contemporarily.
Marthe Hoffnung Cohn is a French author, nurse, former spy and Holocaust survivor. She wrote about her experiences as a spy during the Holocaust in the book Behind Enemy Lines.
Behind Enemy Lines is a 2002 autobiographical book co-written by Holocaust survivor Marthe Cohn and Wendy Holden. It details Cohn's exploits as a French Jew during the Holocaust and World War II when, working as a nurse, she traveled into German territory to collect intelligence for the French Army, as the Allied forces started making advances on Germany, pushing the German forces back during World War II
The Diocese of Amiens is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises the department of Somme, of which the city of Amiens is the capital.
Louis I was Prince of Monaco from 1662 until 1701.
Devil in the Flesh is a 1947 French romantic drama film directed by Claude Autant-Lara, based on the 1923 novel of the same name by Raymond Radiguet. The film stars Micheline Presle and Gérard Philipe, with Palau, Jean Varas, Jacques Tati, Denise Grey and Jean Debucourt in supporting roles.
The Gallia Christiana, a type of work of which there have been several editions, is a documentary catalogue or list, with brief historical notices, of all the Catholic dioceses and abbeys of France from the earliest times, also of their occupants.
Marthe Robin was a French Roman Catholic mystic and stigmatist and foundress of the Foyers de charité association. She became bedridden when she was 21 and remained so until her death. According to witnesses she ate nothing for many years apart from receiving Holy Eucharist.
Marthe Mercadier was a French actress.
The Colettine Poor Clares are a reform branch of the Order of St. Clare, founded by Clare of Assisi in Italy in 1211. They follow the interpretation of the Rule of St. Clare established by Saint Colette in 1410, originally a French hermit and member of the Third Order of St. Francis.
Marthe Mathilde Cnockaert, later Marthe McKenna, was a Belgian nurse who became a spy for the United Kingdom and its allies during the First World War. She later became a novelist, and is credited with writing over a dozen spy novels in addition to her memoirs and short stories.
Maret School is a coeducational, K–12 independent school in Washington, D.C. It was founded by Marthe Maret in 1911 as a French primary school for girls and boys.
Marie Heurtin was a French deafblind woman. Despite learning no language until the age of ten, Marie was taught to sign, read, and write by the nuns of Notre Dame de Larnay, a convent near Poitiers. As a young adult, Marie helped educate other deafblind girls at the convent, including her younger sister, who was also deafblind.
The Final Lesson is a 2015 French drama film directed by Pascale Pouzadoux and starring Sandrine Bonnaire and Marthe Villalonga. The film is based on the 2004 novel La Dernière Leçon by Noëlle Châtelet.
Yvonne Jourjon was a pioneering French pilot and flight instructor. She was the first woman flight instructor in France.
Marthe de Roucoulle or de Rocoulle (1659–1741) was a French Huguenot educator and salonnaire active in Prussia. She was the governess first of Frederick William I of Prussia and later of his son Frederick the Great.
Princess Charlotte Thérèse Nathalie of Monaco was a Monegasque princess and Catholic nun.
Gabriel-Léopold-Charles-Amé Bexon or Abbe Bexon was a French clergyman and a naturalist who corresponded with Buffon and wrote a few books.
Tenderness is a 1930 French drama film directed by André Hugon and starring Marcelle Chantal, Jean Toulout and André Dubosc. The film's sets were designed by the art director Christian-Jaque. It is based on the 1922 play of the same title by Henry Bataille. A separate German-language version Zärtlichkeit was also produced.
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