Marie Jonet Dugès
{{Short description|French head midwife of the Hôtel-Dieu}}
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Marie Jonet Dugès (1730–1797) was a French midwife.{{cite book|last=Stanley|first=Autumn|title=Mothers and daughters of invention : notes for a revised history of technology|year=1993|publisher=Scarecrow|location=Metuchen, NJ, u.a.|isbn=0810825864|page=234}}
Family
Jonet Dugès' daughter, Marie Lachapelle, was also a renowned midwife.{{cite book|last=Ogilvie|first=Marilyn|title=The biographical dictionary of women in science : pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century.|year=2000|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=9780415920407|page=[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict02ogil/page/731 731]|author2-last=Harvey|author2-first=Joy|author-link=Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie|author2-link=Joy Harvey|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict02ogil}} From an early age, her daughter was a constant companion and assisted at births. Dugès taught her everything she knew about midwifery.
Career
Jonet Dugès was first a sworn midwife ("sage-femme jurée") at the Chatelet Hospital.{{cite book|last=Buck|first=Albert Henry|title=The dawn of modern medicine|url=https://archive.org/details/dawnmodernmedic00buckgoog|year=1920|publisher=Yale Univ. Press|location=New Haven|page=[https://archive.org/details/dawnmodernmedic00buckgoog/page/n334 256]}} Later, in 1775, she was promoted to the position of Midwife-in-Chief of the Hôtel-Dieu. She performed her duties with such zeal, ability, and faithfulness that when she retired the government awarded her a liberal pension.
Legacy
Marie Jonet Dugès is remembered as one of the most significant midwives attached to the Hôtel-Dieu, and for her improvement of French midwifery.{{cite book |editor-first=Edwin |editor-last=van Teijlingen |title=Midwifery and the medicalization of childbirth: comparative perspectives|year=2000|publisher=Nova Science Publishers|location=Huntington, NY|isbn=9781560726807|page=87}}