Inès de Bourgoing
Inès-Marie de Bourgoing was born into a noble family in Paris on 5 Janaury 1862. She was educated in the city at a school for noble girls. When she was 18, she married Joseph Fortoul, an army officer. The couple had three children but one died before he was two years old. After her husband died from an illness in 1900, she trained in the newly opened school for nurses in Paris.