Sister Rosalie Rendu.

She had taken her vows at the Daughters of Charity when she was 21 years old. In 1833, it is a 47 year-old sister that knows well the poor, who helps the first fellow members. She has spent the essential part of her life in the Muffetard neighbourhood, at the time one of the poorest in Paris. Located on the mountain slope of Sainte-Genevičve, it was very close to the « district of Schools », that is, of the universities (faculty of Law, Sorbonne…), where the founders of the conference of charity used to live. She gave these middle-class young men that were discovering poverty, the address of the poor to be visited. She also gave them the first « vouchers for bread » to be handed out.