Hélène de Jaurias (1824-1900) is a French missionary who was murdered during the Boxer Rebellion. Biographize the code Born May 1, 1824 at Jaurias Castle (Gout-Rossignol), in Dordogne, she is the sixth of eight children of Antoine Aubin de Jaurias and his wife, born Louise-Eleonore of Teyssieres. After entering the house of the daughters of Charity, she left Paris on July 25, 1855 for China. She arrived on December 15, 1855 in Ningbo (Zhejiang Province), where she devoted herself to hospital work in the Apostolic Vicariate of Zhejiang, then to that of North Tche-Ly (now Zhili), based in Beijing. . She died on August 21, 1900 in Beijing following the siege of Pé-Tang by the Boxers (June 13-August 16, 1900). His story had a big impact in the press at the time.

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