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Louise Bourgeois or Louise Boursier or Louise Bourgeois or Louyse Bourgeous or Louyse Bourgeois (1563–1636) was a French midwife called The Scholar. She was midwife to the French royal family of King Henry IV of France and his wife Marie de Médicis,〔(Encyclopedia of World Biography | 2005 | Louise Bourgeois (French midwfe) )〕 and helped raise the art from folklore to science through her prodigious writings and her methods which were based on common sense. == Early life == Bourgeois was born in 1563 in what was then a rural area just outside Paris called, the Faubourg Saint-Germain.〔(Louise Bourgeois (1563–1636): royal midwife of France by P.M. Dunn )〕〔Perkins, p. 15〕 Her family was wealthy. They lived near the master surgeon Martin Boursier, who for years was a pupil-assistant of Ambroise Pare.〔 Bourgeois married Fellow in 1584 at the parish of Saint Sulpice.〔 The following is what the register of this parish register reads: ''The 30 December 1584, married Martin Boursier, barber-surgeon and Loyse Bourgeois.''〔Chereau, p. 5〕 They started living at Faubourg Saint-Germain probably by 1586 and definitely by 1588.〔 King Henri IV attacked Paris in 1589; Bourgeois had three children at the time.〔 Bourgeois fled behind the city walls of Paris with her children for protection, since her husband was away in the army. She had to abandon most of their valuable possessions because there was no way to bring them within the city walls.〔 For an income then Bourgeois took up needlework, which however did not bring in enough money to live on. Later she took up midwifery as a profession. It is possible that she learned this medical skill from her husband, or instead by going to a recently established school for midwives at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louise Bourgeois Boursier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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