Marie-Madeleine Hachard

French letter writer and abbess of the Ursuline order. She was one of the first members of the first Ursuline Convent in New Orleans in French Louisiana in 1727. Her letters home to her father in France have been preserved, published, and are valued as a source of historical documentation. Real name: Marie-Madeleine Hachard née Hennebont Also known as: Sister Hachard de Saint-Stanislas