Listing 1 - 2 of 2 |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
Marie-André Duplessis (1687-1760) guided the Augustinian sisters at the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec - the oldest hospital north of Mexico - where she was elected mother superior six times. Although often overshadowed by colonial nuns who became foundresses or saints, she was a powerhouse during the last decades of the French regime and an accomplished woman of letters. She has been credited with Canada’s first literary narrative, Canada’s first music manual, and the first book by a Canadian woman printed during her own lifetime. In A Touch of Fire, the first biography of Duplessis, Thomas Carr analyzes how she navigated, in peace and war, the unstable, male-dominated colonial world of New France. Through a study of Duplessis's correspondence, her writings, and the rich Hôtel-Dieu archives, Carr details how she channelled the fire of her commitment to the hospital in order to advance its interests, preserve its history, and inspire her sister nuns. Duplessis chronicled New France as she wrote for and about her institution. Her administrative correspondence reveals her managerial successes and failures, and her private letters reshaped her friendship with a childhood Jansenist friend, Marie-Catherine Hecquet. Carr also delves into her relationship with her sister Geneviève Duplessis, who joined her in the cloister and became her managerial and spiritual partner. The addition of Duplessis's last letters provides a dramatic insider's view into the female experience of the siege and capture of Quebec in 1759. A Touch of Fire examines the life and work of an enterprising leader and major woman author of early Canada.
Hospitals. --- Duplessis, Marie-Andrée, --- Correspondence. --- Hôtel-Dieu de Québec. --- Canada --- History
Choose an application
Amorce par une toute petite poignee de chercheurs il y a cinquante ans, le domaine des neurosciences à Quebec compte aujourd'hui plus d'une centaine de neuroscientifiques de haut niveau, dissemines dans tout le reseau de l'Universite Laval. Leurs activites occupent tous les principaux creneaux du tres vaste domaine des sciences du cerveau, allant des aspects les plus fondamentaux du fonctionnement neuronal chez l'animal aux processus complexes qui sous-tendent la cognition humaine. On doit ce developpement retentissant aux efforts constants de tous ces chercheurs qui, au cours des ans, sont venus apporter leur pierre à l'edifice commun. Mais, avant tout, nous sommes redevables à des individus singuliers, comme Claude Fortier, Louis J. Poirier, Mircea Steriade, Fernand Labrie, Mme Carol L. Richards, Michel Maziade et Yves De Koninck, lesquels, en plus d'être des chercheurs productifs, ont fait montre d'un sens inne de l'organisation et du developpement de la recherche. Je souhaite que ce texte soit reçu comme un humble hommage à ces developpeurs, de même que comme un incitatif à poursuivre de façon particulierement energique la merveilleuse odyssee qu'ils ont entamee.
Neurosciences --- History. --- Centre hospitalier universitaire de Quebec --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- CHUQ --- Centre universitaire de santé de Québec --- Hôtel Dieu de Québec. --- Hôpital St-François d'Assise. --- Université Laval. --- Hôtel-Dieu de Québec --- Hôpital St-François d'Assise
Listing 1 - 2 of 2 |
Sort by
|