Jeanne
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Jeanne (1720s - unknown) was the wife of Philippe de Grandpré and the mother of Aveline de Grandpré, borne of West African descent. In 1759, she mysteriously disappeared after her daughter had let go of her hand in the middle of New Orleans.
Biography
Early life
Sometime in the early part of her life, Jeanne was taken as a slave from her homeland on the West Coast of Africa and transported to Saint-Domingue, a colony situated on the island of Haiti.
Some time after her arrival in Colonial America, she was purchased by Philippe de Grandpré, a wealthy French merchant, and taken as a placee bride. As a result of their relationship, her daughter Aveline was born in 1747.
Chichen Itza
Some time after her disappearance, Aveline traced her whereabouts to Chichen Itza, where Jeanne resided in a freed slaves' colony near to a Mayan temple. On witnessing Aveline, and the Hidden Blade she possessed, Jeanne fled the encounter fearing for her life; she recognized it to be a symbol of the Assassins, which she had cut all ties to through a past discovery.
She would come across her daughter again when Aveline returned to retrieve the second part of a First Civilization artifact. There, Jeanne did not run from Aveline, deciding that if her daughter had come to end her life, she would accept that fate, though Aveline explained that she did not want to kill her mother.
Following this, Jeanne remained in Chichen Itza as she felt that New Orleans would never be safe, and that the colony in which she resided needed her.
Trivia
- Before giving it to her daughter as a necklace, Jeanne was in possession of an amulet belonging to the First Civilization, which had the ability to open the entrance to the Grand Temple, along with the use of an Apple. It was strikingly similar, if not identical in appearance, to the amulet that the Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton took from the Templar Charles Lee.
- Three known men were known to have had romantic feelings for Jeanne: her husband and father of Aveline, Philippe, the Assassin and later Mentor of the French Colonial Brotherhood, Agaté, and François Mackandal, the Mentor of the Spanish Colonial Brotherhood and Agaté's former ally and friend.
- Jeanne kept two diaries throughout her life, in which she chronicled her thoughts, that were later collected and compiled together by Aveline.
Gallery
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Concept art of Jeanne.
Reference
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