Jeanne Jugan

Jeanne Jugan was born in Cancale, Brittany, on October 25, 1792, and became a kitchen maid at sixteen. In the winter of 1839 she took in Anne Chauvin, a blind, partly paralyzed elderly woman, and by 1842 she had a convent building that could house forty. The priest Auguste Le Pailleur pushed her out of the leadership of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and she lived in obscurity for 27 years until she died on August 29, 1879. In 1890 Le Pailleur was dismissed and she was acknowledged as foundress. She was canonized on October 11, 2009.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 1.9 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• Congo Square — 1.9 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 2.3 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• The Cabildo — 2.3 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.

More markers nearby

• Pitot House — steps away
• Our Lady of the Rosary Rectory — steps away
• Metairie And Gentilly Ridges — steps away
• Allard Plantation — 0.3 mi