A talk on Samuel de Champlain's young wife, Hélène Boullé, by Charente-born author Catherine Goulletquer.
Samuel de Champlain's wife, Hélène Boullé, a devout and assertive woman. Married as a child to Samuel de Champlain, Hélène Boullé soon rebelled. The harshness of her stay in New France revealed her to herself.
Now a widow, she handles the trials that life throws at her with nobility before devoting herself fully to her long-held faith.
Catherine Goulletquer is an author, English translator and lecturer originally from the Charente, now based in the Loire Atlantique region.
Over the past 25 years, she has published some twenty individual and collective works with a dozen publishers.
Her professional career as a journalist in France and abroad, then as a biographer and transgenerational and integrative therapist, has led her to specialise in writing biographies, family histories and historical novels.
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