Minnie Vautrin
Wilhelmina (Minnie) Vautrin (September 27, 1886 – May 14, 1941) was an American missionary known for the care and protection of as many as ten thousand refugees during the Nanking Massacre in China.
Biography
Minnie Vautrin was born in Secor, Illinois on September 27, 1886 to Pauline (née Lohr) and Edmond Louis Vautrin. Her father, Edmond, was a French immigrant from Lorraine, who moved to Peoria, Illinois in 1883 to undergo a blacksmithing apprenticeship with his uncle, and later moved to Secor, where he married Pauline. Minnie was the second of the couple's three children; her elder brother died as an infant. When Minnie was six years old, her mother suddenly died of unrecorded causes. After this event, Minnie was sent to several different foster homes. Three years later, the courts permitted her to return home to her father, where she assumed many household chores and excelled in school. Her teacher, commending Vautrin's work at school, later said that "Minnie was a born student...She could excel in most anything she tried, and was a genuinely Christian girl." After primary schooling, Vautrin attended Secor High School. During her high school career, Vautrin worked several part-time jobs to save for her schooling and volunteered at local churches.
Vautrin
Vautrin [vo.tʁɛ̃] is a character from the novels of French writer Honoré de Balzac in the La Comédie humaine series. His real name is Jacques Collin [ʒɑk kɔ.lɛ̃]. He appears in the novels Le Père Goriot (Father Goriot, 1834/35) under the name Vautrin, and in Illusions perdues (Lost illusions, 1837–43) and Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, 1838–44), the sequel of Illusions perdues, under the name of Abbé Carlos Herrera. In prison, he got the nickname Trompe-la-Mort (Dodgedeath), because he manages to avoid the death sentence repeatedly.
Background
By the time the Comédie humaine series begins, Jacques Collin is an escaped convict and criminal mastermind fleeing from the police. The character first appears in the La Comédie humaine series using the name of Vautrin, so he is usually referred to in literary criticism under this name. Balzac was inspired to the character by Eugène François Vidocq (1775–1857) a former criminal who later became chief of the Paris police.
Vautrin (disambiguation)
Vautrin is a fictional character from the novels of French writer Honoré de Balzac in the La Comédie humaine series..
People
Vautrin is the French family name. It is from a pet form of the personal name Vautier, a regional variant of Gauthier.
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