Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on May 29, 1934, announcing the birth of the Dionne quintuplets. Editor’s note: This story was ...
Quintuplets Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Émilie and Marie Dionne spent most of their childhoods in an Ontario compound known as Quintland. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In the early morning hours of ...
The Dionnes, the first quints known to have survived infancy, became a global sensation and prey for the greedy. And Cécile came to resent it all. Only one of the five now survives. By Jane Gross ...
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How the Dionne Quintuplets Learned to Say Nothing
Cécile Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets—the world’s first to survive infancy and into adulthood—died on July 28 in Montreal, at the age of ninety-one. Celebrated writer Mavis Gallant wrote this ...
She was the first to crawl, the first to cut a tooth, the first to recognize her name, and the last to die. And, like her sisters, she resented being exploited as part of a global sensation. By Jane ...
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