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| name = Hélène Boullé
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| image = Madame Champlain enseignant aux enfants indiens, 1620.jpg
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| caption = A portrait of Boullé from 1931, depicting her teaching native children in 1620
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| birth_date = 1598
| birth_place = [[France]]
| death_date = {{death year and age|1654|1598}}
| death_place = France
| nationality = [[Kingdom of France]]
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| spouse = {{marriage|[[Samuel de Champlain]]|December 27, 1610|December 1635|end=died}}
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| parents = [[Nicolas Boullé]]
| relatives = [[Hélène Desportes]] <small>(goddaughter)</small>
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'''Hélène Boullé''' ({{IPA-fr|elɛn bule|lang}}; 1598-1654) was the wife of [[Samuel de Champlain]] at age thirteen, while he was 44, 31 year difference. She was given in marriage to Samuel at age 13,<ref>{{cite web|title=Helene Boullé|website=Biographi.ca|url=http://www.biographi.ca/fr/bio/boulle_helene_1F.html}}</ref> but needed two years of lapse before the cohabitation of the couple, as stated by their marriage contract.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dionne|first=Narcisse-Eutrope |title=Champlain, Volume 1|publisher=Morang & Co.|year=1906|pages=66}}</ref> Helene's father was [[Nicolas Boullé]], who was the Lord Chamberlain of France. After de Champlain's death in December 1635, Hélène became an [[Ursulines|Ursuline]] [[nun]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Litalien|first1=Raymonde|last2=Roth |first2=Käthe |last3=Vaugeois |first3=Denis |title=Champlain: the birth of French America|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press|year=2004|pages=198|isbn=978-0-7735-2850-5}}</ref>

The [[Zec Boullé]] and [[Saint Helen's Island]] are all named after her.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=120609 |title= Zec Boullé |publisher=[[Commission de toponymie du Québec]] |access-date=2014-09-07 |language=French}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=56197|title=Île Sainte-Hélène |publisher= [[Commission de toponymie du Québec]] |access-date=2014-12-26 |language=French}}</ref>

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