Dionne quintuplets biography surviving sisters
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Dionne quintuplets
Canadian quintuplets, the first known to have survived infancy
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Ontario Premier Mitchell Hepburn with the Dionne babies in | |
| Born | ()May 28, Corbeil, Ontario, Canada |
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| Known&#;for | Being identical quintuplets |
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The Dionne quintuplets (French pronunciation:[djɔn]; born May 28, ) are the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. The identical girls were born just outside Callander, Ontario, near the village of Corbeil. All five survived to adulthood.[1]
The Dionne girls were born premature. After four months with their family, custody was signed over to the Red Cross, which paid for their care and oversaw the building of a hospital for the sisters. Less than a year after this agreement was signed, the Ontario government stepped in and passed the Dionne Quintuplets' Guardianship Act, , which made them wards of th
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Written By: Ben Cosgrove
Five identical sisters who became known as the Dionne Quintuplets were born prematurely in a small village in Ontario, Canada, in May The quintet were a money-making juggernaut in the s and s, put on display as public curiosities, while their private lives were marked by misery, betrayal and alleged abuse at the hands of those closest to them. The text below is an edited version of an article that Dennis Gaffney wrote on the quintuplets for WGBH&#;s Antiques Roadshow site.
It&#;s worth noting, meanwhile, that while LIFE magazine—in its own way, and like so many other publications —contributed to the exploitation of the &#;Quins,&#; the magazine did have the sense to sound some prescient warnings about the nature of the quintuplets&#; unusual and intensely proscribed upbringing. &#;Their formal schooling,&#; LIFE wrote in its Sept. 2, , issue, &#;will never constitute a real education until the children can be exposed to the rough and tumble of life wi •The Dionne Quintuplets:
Annette ( ), Cecile ( ), Emilie (), Marie (), and Yvonne ()