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Marie Rollet was a French woman and early settler in Quebec. Her second husband, Louis Hébert, was apothecary to Samuel Champlain's expeditions to Acadia and Quebec on 1606 and 1610–13.
- An Educated Parisienne
- Marriage to Louis Hébert
- Departure For New France
- First Female French Farmer and Teacher in Quebec
- Commemoration
Marie Rollet was born in Paris circa 1580. At the time, her parents lived in the neighbourhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the 6th arrondissement and were financially well off. Her father, Jean Rollet, worked as a gunner for King Henry IV, and her mother was named Anne Cogu. Marie Rollet studied at a convent run by nuns. She was considered an educ...
On 19 February 1601, the 21-year-old Marie Rollet, widow of François Dufeu, a merchant from Compiègne, married Louis Hébert, a Parisian apothecary (see Pharmacy). The ceremony took place at the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris. The following year, Rollet and Hébert bought a small house at 1602 Rue de la Petite Seine for the price of 200 livres tour...
In 1617, Louis, Marie and their three children, Anne, Guillemette and Guillaume, left France and settled in Quebec City, in New France. Louis Hébert signed a two-year contract with the Company of New France for 300 livres per year. The Rollet-Hébert family boarded the Saint-Étienne at the port of Honfleur on 11 March 1617. The three-month crossin...
In Quebec City, Marie Rollet laboured alongside Louis Hébert in his work as a farmer and apothecary. Together, they cleared the land, sowed crops and looked after French colonists as well as Indigenous people. In 1620, they built a stone house with the help of workers from the habitation of Quebec City. That same year, Samuel de Champlaingave Louis...
The 400th anniversary of Rollet and Hébert’s arrival in New France was commemorated in 2017. For the occasion, Marie Rollet and Louis Hébert were designated “historical figures” by the Quebec government, and more than 25 activities were organized to celebrate the festivities, including the exhibition 1617–2017: The Legacy of Louis Hébert: 400 Years...
Marie Rolet aided her husband in caring for the sick and shared his interest in indigenous people, concerning herself especially with the education of their children. In 1627, at the baptism of Chomina ’s son, Naneogauchit, which the priests were striving to make an impressive occasion, she fed a crowd of visitors from her big brewing kettle.
- Ethel M. G. Bennett
- ROLET (Rollet), MARIE (Dufeu; Hébert; Hubou)
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1
ROLLET, MARIE, wife of Louis Hébert, Canada’s first settler; d. 1649 at Quebec. In 1617, with her husband and three children she came from Paris to Quebec, where she found starvation, sickness, and threats of Indian attack.
Mar 7, 2017 · Marie Rollet, Louis' wife, was no less important than her husband. Unfortunately, as happens more than it should, she gets overlooked. Marie and her daughters were the first European women to colonize Canada.
- Candice Mcdonald
Oct 29, 2018 · Marie Rollet was the first European woman to migrate to New France, the first woman to farm there, plus she was the colony’s first teacher. Her life has been noted in history books, and she has been honored in Quebec City with a prominent statue. Marie’s life began in about 1580, born to Jehan Rollet and Anne Cohu in Paris.
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