The Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Ville-Marie now needed more nurses. In particular, they wanted the Hospitalières of St. Joseph stationed at La Flèche, France, and as soon as possible. Jeanne and Marguerite were to travel back to France for them, but just as they prepared to leave, Father de Queylus sent two Augustinian nuns from the Hôtel-Dieu in Quebec to Ville-Marie. Their stay was supposed to be temporary but de Queylus, like many others, felt the Augustinian nuns should eventually control Jeanne’s Hôtel-Dieu.
Jeanne didn’t know it, but de Queylus had also written a letter to La Dauversière, the founder of the Hospitalières de St-Joseph in La Flèche, suggesting this arrangement. He even said that Jeanne approved.
Nothing could have been further from the truth.
