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Marie Pauline Depage (23 September 1872 - 7 May 1915) was a Belgian nurse, and wife of Dr Antoine Depage. She was killed in the sinking of the RMS ''Lusitania'', and she is commemorated in Belgium alongside the British nurse Edith Cavell ==Early life== She was born Marie Pauline Picard, in Ixelles near Brussels in Belgium, one of two daughters and two sons of the engineer Désiré Émile Picard and Julie Marie Victorine Héger. She was a niece of Professor Paul Héger and granddaughter of Constantin Héger. She married a Belgian doctor Antoine Depage on 8 August 1893. They had three sons. Her husband was a surgeon to the Belgian King Albert, and chairman of the Belgian Red Cross. He was also a founder of the International Society of Surgery (Societe internationale de chirurgie) in 1902. Depage showed talent in drawing and painting; after studying human anatomy, she drew illustrations of her husband's surgical work. Concerned at the antiquated nursing practice in Belgian hospitals run by nuns, Antoine Depage founded a laicised non-denominational medical institute in 1907, the Berkendael Medical Institute (also known as ''L'École Belge d’Infirmières Diplômées''), in Uccle near Brussels, with Edith Cavell as head nurse. Marie Depage took on the administrative work. The couple were also involved in the introduction of Baden-Powell's scouting movement into Belgium in 1909-10, and Marie translated and published several of Baden-Powell's books. 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「Marie Depage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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