Michel Corrette was a French composer, organist and author of musical method books.
The Ursulines, also known as the Order of Saint Ursula, is an enclosed religious order of women that in 1572 branched off from the Angelines, also known as the Company of Saint Ursula. The Ursulines trace their origins to the Angeline foundress Angela Merici and likewise place themselves under the patronage of Saint Ursula. While the Ursulines took up a monastic way of life under the Rule of Saint Augustine, the Angelines operate as a secular institute. The largest group within the Ursulines is the Ursulines of the Roman Union.
Fils de France was the style and rank held by the sons of the kings and dauphins of France. A daughter was known as a fille de France.
The Abbé Pierre François Guyot-Desfontaines was a French journalist, translator and popular historian.
Ursuline Academy is a private, Catholic, all-girls high school and elementary school in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It is located within the Archdiocese of New Orleans and under the trusteeship of the Ursuline Sisters of the New Orleans Community, part of the Ursuline Central Province of North America. Founded in 1727, the Academy is the oldest Catholic school and the oldest school for women in the United States.
Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie was a French woman who started the Order of Ursulines of Quebec.
Ursuline Convent was a series of historic Ursuline convents in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. In 1727, at the request of Governor Étienne Perier, nuns from the Ursuline Convent of Rouen (Normandy) went to New Orleans to found a convent, run a hospital, and take care of educating young girls.
Élise Bruyère (1776–1847) was a French painter who specialized in portraits and floral still lifes.
Women letter writers in early modern Europe created lengthy correspondences, where they expressed their intellect and their creativity; in the process, they also left a rich historical legacy.
The Ursulines have a long history in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier was a well-known French painter of historical subjects who was active before, during and after the French Revolution.
Michel-Bruno Bellengé was a French painter.
Jean Behourt, born in the first half of the 16th century in Rouen where he died in 1621, was a French grammarian and playwright.
Désiré-François Le Filleul des Guerrots was a 19th-century French poet and fabulist.
Théodore-Éloi Lebreton was a 19th-century autodidact French poet, chansonnier and bibliographer.
François Raguenet was a French historian, biographer and musicologist.
Esprit Sylvestre Blanche was a French psychiatrist.
Marie-Jeanne Larrivée, born Marie-Jeanne Lemière was a French soprano.
Events from the year 1639 in France
Marie Tranchepain, also known as Marie St. Augustin, was a French woman of the Order of St. Ursula and in 1727 sailed to New Orleans where she became the first Mother Superior of the Old Ursuline Convent. At that time, New Orleans was part of French Louisiana. She established the first school for girls in what is now the United States.
