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Quintuplets born to farm wife -- Canadian woman gives birth to five girls; all are doing well -- Country doctor struggles to save lives of Canadian mother and quintuplet girls -- Progress of quintuplets amazes medical world -- Star sends assistance to mother and five babes -- Quintuplets may go on exhibit at Chicago fair -- Quintuplets father to get $100 a week while all live -- Home turned into hospital -- Parents of quintuplets dazed by sudden fame, offers, gifts -- Too many showmen after quintuplets -- Dionnes now have to guard quintuplets from tourist horde -- Quintuplet hospital started near home of parents -- Parents of babies plan for future -- Parents wishes to be ignored -- Ontario adopts five world-famous little girls -- Mrs. Dionne, worlds most famous mother, declares she is one of the unhappiest -- The private life of the Dionne quints -- Quints lose stage fright, 2500 gawkers a day -- Quintuplet frolics play to standing room only -- The threat to the quints happiness -- Dionne endorsements, incorporated -- Dr. Dafoe himself -- Science designs a life for the Dionnes -- Home or science? The Dionnes case debated -- Just one big unhappy family -- Guardians of Dionnes seek better relations with tots parents -- Felt right at home with king and queen -- Dionne suing Dafoe for libel ; New York photo basis of action -- Dionne wins control over his five girls -- Quints will soon move to new home -- Dionne quints get schoolmates, nine specially selected girls -- Dionne quints 16 now, but no dates, says stern papa -- Famous Dionne quintuplets to be separated for first time this fall -- Four quints dry-eyed and close to shock -- Four Dionne sisters start life anew -- Boys? Million dollars? Dionnes shrug shoulders -- The Dionnes : a fight for happiness -- Quints story causes new wound -- The babies of Quintland now : broke and bitter.;When they were born on May 28, 1934, quintuplets Yvonne, Annette, Ccile, milie, and Marie captivated the world, defying medical history with every breath they took. In an effort to protect them from hucksters and showmen, the Ontario government took custody of the quints, sequestering them in a private, custom-built hospital across the road from their family. Here, Sarah Miller reconstructs their unprecedented upbringing with depth and subtlety, illustrating not only their resilience, but also the unique bond of their sisterhood--

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Copyright 2019 by Sarah Miller Cover photograph collection of the author All - photo 1
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Copyright 2019 by Sarah Miller

Cover photograph collection of the author

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Childrens Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

Schwartz & Wade Books and the colophon are trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published materials:

Archives of Ontario: Excerpts from letter of July 3, 1935, by Fred Davis; diaries of 1934 and 1935 by Yvonne Leroux; handwritten draft entitled Quintuplets by Yvonne Leroux; and handwritten draft entitled The Five Unluckiest Children by Yvonne Leroux. Used by permission of the Archives of Ontario. All rights reserved.

Berkley, an imprint of the Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, and Carole Hbert: Excerpts from Family Secrets: The Dionne Quintuplets Autobiography by Jean-Yves Soucy with Annette, Ccile, and Yvonne Dionne, translated by Kathe Roth. Original title: Secrets de Famille, copyright 1995 by Editions Libre Expression. English language translation copyright 1996 by Stoddard Publishing. American edition copyright 1996 by Penguin Random House LLC. Used by permission of Carole Hbert and Berkley, an imprint of the Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Kathryn Brough: Excerpts from We Were Five: The Dionne Quintuplets Story from Birth Through Girlhood to Womanhood by James Brough (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964), copyright 1964 by James Brough. Used by permission of Kathryn Brough. All rights reserved.

Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC: Excerpts from The Dionne Legend: Quintuplets in Captivity by Lillian Barker, copyright 1951 by Lillian Barker. Used by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

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ISBN9781524713812 (trade) ISBN9781524713829 (lib. bdg.) ebook ISBN9781524713836

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TO SARAH NICOLE,

who has a smile like Marie Dionnes

We dont feel anyone can be fair to

both sides and tell the truth.

THRSE DIONNE

Children are the riches of the poor.

PROVERB

In an empty nursery behind two woven wire fences topped with barbed wire five - photo 3

In an empty nursery, behind two woven wire fences topped with barbed wire, five nine-year-old girls waited for their father. Five suitcases sat alongside them. Five smiling Shirley Temple dolls were clutched in their arms. Yvonne stared out the window at the yellow brick mansion up the hill. Annette quietly seethed, pretending not to be afraid. Ccile sat in a corner, rocking her doll. milie prayed that it was all just a bad dream. Marie tried to tell a silly story, but no one laughed.

At the sound of their fathers footsteps in the hall, all five sisters hugged their Shirley Temples closer to their chests. The moment they dreaded had come.

For the first time in their lives, the Dionne Quintuplets were going home.


Oliva Dionne did not speak as he and his five identical daughters walked through the hospitals guarded gate, down the road, and through another gate that led to the colossal Georgian house that was to be their new home. He did not lead them up the steps to the grand front door. Instead, he entered through a service door into the kitchen. Yvonne followed first, trying to be brave for her sisters sake. Though Yvonne was no more than a few minutes older than Annette, Ccile, milie, and Marie, she had acted the part of the little mother since she was a toddler.

For nine years Mr. Dionne had battled with the government to unite his family under a single roof. Now that his triumphant moment had arrived, the man who had once crawled through a drainpipe to elude hospital guards just so he could glimpse his five famous babies through a window spoke a single sentence.

The little girls are here , he told his wife, and continued into the house, leaving his daughters standing in the unfamiliar kitchen with their dolls and suitcases.

Bonsoir, Mom , Yvonne, Annette, Ccile, milie, and Marie said, greeting their mother in a mixture of French and English.

Supper will be ready soon , Mrs. Dionne replied in French, then called for two of her elder daughters. Show the little girls around the house, she instructed.

Without a word, the little girls followed as their big sisters pointed into one doorway after another. The living room, the den, the sewing room, their fathers office. Redolent of fresh paint and filled with pristine furniture, the house felt new and sterile, more sterile by far than the hospital that had been their home since they were four months old.

Then they reached the dining room. Like everything else in the house, it was big, in this case big enough to seat fourteenMr. and Mrs. Dionne, Yvonne, Annette, Ccile, milie, Marie, and their seven brothers and sisters, Ernest, Rose-Marie, Thrse, Daniel, Pauline, Oliva Jr., and Victor. An archway divided the room in half, with a table on each side. This side is for our family , the little girls remembered one of their elder sisters saying. The other side is for your family.

Not one of the bewildered nine-year-olds knew what to say.

The knock at the back door roused Douilda Legros from her bed Auntie please - photo 4
The knock at the back door roused Douilda Legros from her bed Auntie please - photo 5

The knock at the back door roused Douilda Legros from her bed. Auntie, please hurry and dress and come over, Oliva Dionne called. Elzire, she is very sick. Please hurry, he said again.

Auntie Legros was on her way in minutes.

It was only a short drive across the road to the Dionne farm, but it was long enough for Douilda Legross worries to unreel through her mind. Poor Elzire had never had such a difficult pregnancy. Headaches, dizzy spells, vomiting. Painful legs and feet swollen to twice their normal size. A finger pressed into her skin left a deep dent. Now and then the edges of her vision went black.

Two, perhaps three weeks ago it had become so bad Elzire had finally consented to let her husband, Oliva, consult the doctor in spite of the cost. The doctor had ordered Elzire off her feet entirely, but that was next to impossible on a three-hundred-acre farm with five young children to care for.

And now? The urgency in Olivas voice could only mean something worse yet. Perhaps the worst thing of allthe baby, coming too soon.

Auntie Legros let herself in the front door without waking Ernest, Rose-Marie, Thrse, and Daniel, asleep upstairs, and made her way to the bedroom at the back of the house. Eleven-month-old Pauline slept in a crib at the foot of the big wooden bed where Elzire lay. Her nieces black eyes peered up out of a pale and puffy face. Auntie, she said weakly in French, I dont think that I will be able to pull through this time.

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