Jeanne-Françoise Juchereau de la Ferté de Saint-Ignace

Jeanne-Françoise Juchereau de la Ferté de Saint-Ignace (* 1 May 1650 in Quebec City; † 14 January 1723 in Quebec City) was a hospitaller nun of the Order of the Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus (Augustines de la Miséricorde de Jésus). She was the 6th superior of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec hospital and the first Canadian (Canadienne) to hold this position.

Life She was the daughter of Marie-Madeleine Giffard and Jean Juchereau de la Ferté, also a nun hospitaller of the Augustinian Order, who died on 15 March 1657 and was buried in the choir of the chapel of the Hôtel Dieu de Québec. two years later. one of the three founding sisters of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec and her aunt Marie-Françoise.

Juchereau is the author of the famous Histoire de l'hôtel-Dieu de Québec, a text she dictated to Mother Marie-Andrée Regnard Duplessis of Sainte-Hélène at the end of her life, when she was afflicted with a paralysis that kept her in bed and afflicted with a catarrh that made her suffer terribly until her death. The work is a unique and essential source of information on the history of the 17th century and of the hospital-monastery founded in 1639 thanks to donations from the Duchess Marie Madeleine d'Aiguillon and Cardinal Richelieu. Juchereau's text was republished in Quebec City in 1939 by Albert Jamet under the title Annales de l'hôtel-Dieu de Québec, 1636-1716.

- François Rousseau, The Cross and the Scalpel - History of the Augustinian nuns of the hôtel-Dieu de Québec.