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Famous Quintuplet Born Before the Great Depression Dies at 91 Following Long Illness; Her Sister Survives Her

Cécile Dionne died at a hospital in Montreal on Monday, July 28, according to a family spokesperson Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The New York Times Cécile Dionne, one of the famous Dionne quintuplets, has ...
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How the Dionne Quintuplets Learned to Say Nothing

Cécile Dionne, one of the Dionne quintuplets—the world’s first to survive infancy and into adulthood—died on July 28 in Montreal, at the age of ninety-one. Celebrated writer Mavis Gallant wrote this ...
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Cécile Dionne, Who Found Fame and Despair as a Quintuplet, Dies at 91

The Dionnes, the first quints known to have survived infancy, became a global sensation and prey for the greedy. And Cécile came to resent it all. Only one of the five now survives. By Jane Gross ...
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The Dionne quintuplets: The exploitation of five girls raised in a 'baby zoo'

The Dionne quintuplets also appeared in ads for dozens of products - Heinz ketchup, Quaker oats, Lifesavers candy, Palmolive soap, Lysol, typewriters, bread, ice cream, sanitized mattress covers.
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Famous Quintuplet Born Before the Great Depression Dies at 91 Following Long Illness; Her Sister Survives Her

She and her four sisters — Marie, Annette, Yvonne and Émilie — quickly gained fame worldwide after their birth in Corbeil, Ontario, on May 28, 1934 Cécile was described in her obituary as “a symbol of ...