[4] After her husband was elected to Parliament, she taught herself English, Italian, and Spanish, and became fluent in those languages in addition to her native French.

[3] Chrétien was active in a number of charitable organizations from the time that her husband was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1963.

[2] Jean Chrétien purchased a grand piano for her using the damages he was awarded in a libel case against The Globe and Mail.

[5] On November 5, 1995, an intruder, André Dallaire, broke into the prime minister's residence at 24 Sussex Drive, in Ottawa, Ontario.

[9] In her role as the prime minister's spouse, Chrétien went to the memorial of the victim of the W. R. Myers High School shooting in 1999, along with Alberta Premier Ralph Klein, Opposition Leader Preston Manning, and the Attorney General of Canada Anne McLellan.

[11] On September 22, 2010, Chrétien was named as the first chancellor of Laurentian University, a bilingual educational institution in Sudbury, Ontario.