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Born in Souancé (diocese of Chartres) in 1666, Catherine Travers was the daughter of Sire Jean Travers du Pérou et Des Murs, guard of the Channel, one of the twenty gentlemen of the Scottish guard, and of Marie Chevalier. Second child of a family of seven, with low income, she grew up in Noisy, in the educational institution which Mme de Maintenon intended to provide for one hundred girls from the impoverished nobility. During the foundation of the House of Saint-Cyr by Louis XIV, she was among the first one to pronounce simple vows to become a Dame of St-Louis (2 July 1686). She soon became mistress of novices - a position she held on March 28, 1692, during the visit to Saint-Cyr of the Apostolic Commissioner. At the time of the transformation of the House into a regular community attached to the order of St. Augustine, she started, in December 1692, a new novitiate under the direction of the Visitandines of Chaillot, and took her solemn vows on December 11th, 1693. From January 1694, she acted as assistant and adviser; and on December 28th, 1695 she was appointed to the post of general mistress of classes. Thus, she became responsible for the entire teaching staff - the first mistresses of the four classes and their assistants who were the novices or ladies of the blue class (between seventeen and twenty years of age) and had been selected for their skills. She was nominated Mother Superior for three years by the Bishop of Chartres on January, 17th 1697, and was then elected for three years by the community on January, 13th 1700. She was re-elected Mother Superior six times in 1706, 1709, 1723, 1726, 1741 and 1744. Between 1686 and 1719, the year of Mme de Maintenon’s death, she received a great number of letters from the founder to advise her in the exercise of her various duties. She died on 15 January 1748 at the age of 82 years. | Born in Souancé (diocese of Chartres) in 1666, Catherine Travers was the daughter of Sire Jean Travers du Pérou et Des Murs, guard of the Channel, one of the twenty gentlemen of the Scottish guard, and of Marie Chevalier. Second child of a family of seven, with low income, she grew up in Noisy, in the educational institution which Mme de Maintenon intended to provide for one hundred girls from the impoverished nobility. During the foundation of the House of Saint-Cyr by Louis XIV, she was among the first one to pronounce simple vows to become a Dame of St-Louis (2 July 1686). She soon became mistress of novices - a position she held on March 28, 1692, during the visit to Saint-Cyr of the Apostolic Commissioner. At the time of the transformation of the House into a regular community attached to the order of St. Augustine, she started, in December 1692, a new novitiate under the direction of the Visitandines of Chaillot, and took her solemn vows on December 11th, 1693. From January 1694, she acted as assistant and adviser; and on December 28th, 1695 she was appointed to the post of general mistress of classes. Thus, she became responsible for the entire teaching staff - the first mistresses of the four classes and their assistants who were the novices or ladies of the blue class (between seventeen and twenty years of age) and had been selected for their skills. She was nominated Mother Superior for three years by the Bishop of Chartres on January, 17th 1697, and was then elected for three years by the community on January, 13th 1700. She was re-elected Mother Superior six times in 1706, 1709, 1723, 1726, 1741 and 1744. Between 1686 and 1719, the year of Mme de Maintenon’s death, she received a great number of letters from the founder to advise her in the exercise of her various duties. She died on 15 January 1748 at the age of 82 years. | ||
| − | This Mother Superior demonstrated a great commitment to the education of girls under the Old | + | This Mother Superior demonstrated a great commitment to the education of girls under the Old Regime, a field of study under investigated today. |
(Translated by [[Martine Sauret]]) | (Translated by [[Martine Sauret]]) | ||
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| Catherine Travers du Pérou | ||
| Also known as | Catherine Travers du Pérou | |
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| Birth date | 1666 | |
| Death | 1748 | |
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Entry by Dominique Picco, 2008
Born in Souancé (diocese of Chartres) in 1666, Catherine Travers was the daughter of Sire Jean Travers du Pérou et Des Murs, guard of the Channel, one of the twenty gentlemen of the Scottish guard, and of Marie Chevalier. Second child of a family of seven, with low income, she grew up in Noisy, in the educational institution which Mme de Maintenon intended to provide for one hundred girls from the impoverished nobility. During the foundation of the House of Saint-Cyr by Louis XIV, she was among the first one to pronounce simple vows to become a Dame of St-Louis (2 July 1686). She soon became mistress of novices - a position she held on March 28, 1692, during the visit to Saint-Cyr of the Apostolic Commissioner. At the time of the transformation of the House into a regular community attached to the order of St. Augustine, she started, in December 1692, a new novitiate under the direction of the Visitandines of Chaillot, and took her solemn vows on December 11th, 1693. From January 1694, she acted as assistant and adviser; and on December 28th, 1695 she was appointed to the post of general mistress of classes. Thus, she became responsible for the entire teaching staff - the first mistresses of the four classes and their assistants who were the novices or ladies of the blue class (between seventeen and twenty years of age) and had been selected for their skills. She was nominated Mother Superior for three years by the Bishop of Chartres on January, 17th 1697, and was then elected for three years by the community on January, 13th 1700. She was re-elected Mother Superior six times in 1706, 1709, 1723, 1726, 1741 and 1744. Between 1686 and 1719, the year of Mme de Maintenon’s death, she received a great number of letters from the founder to advise her in the exercise of her various duties. She died on 15 January 1748 at the age of 82 years. This Mother Superior demonstrated a great commitment to the education of girls under the Old Regime, a field of study under investigated today.
(Translated by Martine Sauret)
Works
- attributed to : Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles, Ms F 629-F 630, Mémoires de ce qui s’est passé de plus remarquable depuis l’établissement de la Maison de Saint-Cyr
Sources
- Archives départementales des Yvelines, D 157, 158, 170 et 174), Registre des noviciats et professions de la Maison royale de Saint-Louis à Saint-Cyr
- Archives départementales des Yvelines, 4E2416, Registre des décès du personnel de la Maison royale de Saint-Louis à Saint-Cyr
- Maintenon, Madame de (Françoise d’Aubigné, dame de Maintenon), Correspondance générale, éd. Théophile Lavallée, Paris, Charpentier, 1865-1866, 5 volumes.
Selected bibliography
- Picco, Dominique, «Les Dames de Saint-Louis, maîtresses des Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr», dans Femmes éducatrices au siècle des Lumières, dir. Isabelle Brouard-Arends et Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-Diéval, Actes du colloque organisé par l'Université Rennes II, Rennes 22-24 juin 2006, Rennes, PUR, 2007, p.273-298.
- Souancé, Hector, (Joseph-Hector-Henri-Jean Guillier, Cte de), Une Supérieure de la maison royale de Saint-Louis à Saint-Cyr, 1697-1747, Bellême, G. Levayer, 1906, in-8˚, 8 p.
Reception
Ce lundy quinzieme de juillet mil sept cent quarante huit, est décédée dans cette maison de S.Louis à Saint-Cyr, soeur Catherine Travers du Pérou, religieuse de choeur, fille de messire Jean Travers des Murs, garde de la Manche et de dame Marie Chevalier son épouse, née en la paroisse de Souancé, diocese de Chartes, âgée de quatre vingt deux ans, cinq mois après avoir reçue plusieurs fois les sacrements de Pénitence, d’Eucharistie et d’Extrême Onction pendant le cours de sa maladie qui a été longue, et dans le cours de laquelle elle a continué à donner les grands exemples de vertus qu’elle a pratiquées pendant soixante quatre ans, qu’il y a que l’établissement est commencé et où elle a toujours remply les principales charges surtout celle de supérieure qu’elle a exercée pendant vingt quatre ans et de maîtresse des novices dans les intervalles et on a toujours vu en elle dans ces différents emplois un grand zèle pour la gloire de Dieu et pour la perfection de l’Institut où elle a eu beaucoup de part, ayant travaillé conjointement avec feue notre illustre institutrice qui l’a toujours honorée d’une grande confiance, et faisait une estime singulière de ses vertus et de ses lumières. Son corps a été inhumé le lendemain de sa mort dans le cimetière de cette maison avec les cérémonies accoutumées. Fait par moi Guillaume Veschambes, supérieure de la maison de St Cyr.» (Registre des décès du personnel de la Maison royale de Saint-Louis à Saint-Cyr, ADY, 4E2416, f°25).
