Within six hours of their birth, the Dionne quintuplets — Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Émilie and Marie — were photographed for all the world to see. The dangerously underweight babies were removed from ...
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 May 28, ...
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 ...