Jeanne St. Laurent (née Renault; October 22, 1886 – November 14, 1966) was the wife of

Louis St. Laurent Louis Stephen St. Laurent (; February 1, 1882 – July 25, 1973) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957. Born and raised in southeastern Quebec, St. Laurent was a leading la ...

, the 12th

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Renault was born in

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. Her parents were Pierre-Ferdinand Renault (1853–1912) and Amanda Montminy (1853–1922). Pierre-Ferdinand Renault was a Beauceville businessman (originally from Ste-Claire-de-Dorchester, Quebec) and changed his family name from Renaud. Renault met Louis St. Laurent at a party in

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in 1906 while he was working as a lawyer, and they married in 1908. They had five children together, two sons and three daughters. In 1951, she moved the family to

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, after the government purchased an official prime-ministerial residence at

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. She would tour with her husband, but she refused to fly and never became reconciled to living in Ottawa.

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