HISTORICAL NOVEL (French)

In 1900, after four years of study, Irma LeVasseur received her medical degree from the University of Minnesota, but the medical authorities of the province of Quebec refused to let her practice the profession. Model of perseverance, Irma appears before the Legislative Assembly to have this decision overturned. She then became the first French-speaking woman in Quebec to practice the profession of doctor.

After years of training abroad to specialize in pediatrics and her participation in the foundation of the Sainte-Justine Hospital, Irma responds to the call of the London government and goes to fight the typhus epidemic that afflicts Serbia, hard hit by the Great War. Irma works as a doctor at the Kragujevac dispensary where she is particularly courageous and resilient in the face of destruction, misery and disease.

Irma s’en va-t-en guerre Leads readers in the footsteps of an exceptional woman, to the extraordinary destiny and will, and to meet a family from Quebec City to say the least original.

Source : https://www.septentrion.qc.ca/catalogue/irma-s-en-va-t-en-guerre