Having a statue built in your honor is almost always a good thing, but while visiting Montreal, we encountered this statue in a large public square.
Built in 1909, it portrays French nurse Jeanne Mance, an early settler of Quebec and one of the founders of Montreal’s first hospital, Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, in 1645.
If you look closely, it appears that the figure of Jeanne Mance is struggling to hold a small, screaming child as she pulls back the child’s pinkie finger.
It’s not good. It looks pretty awful.
Perhaps this is a legitimate procedure required when a small child dislocates her finger, but if you’re going to honor someone with a statue in a public square, perhaps you should choose to portray a more gentle medical procedure.
Jeanne Mance, who I’m sure did great things in her life for the health and well-being of the people of Quebec, looks like a monster.
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Oh, Matt! You teach maths and biology but apparently have trouble counting the requisite number of fingers on a child’s hand. All five are visible and accounted for as she wraps bandaging around the child’s wrist. 😂
I’m actually very impressed by the reality of this statue. Of course, in that era, only being a statue of a woman allowed it to reflect the struggles of real life, with men being assured of flattering, glorified, noble poses of their image. 😏