Marie-Françoise Perroton

Marie-Françoise Perroton (7 February 1796 – 10 August 1873), a French nun, was a pioneer of the Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary in the Pacific.

She completed her education in a boarding school run by the Dames Caillot, where she later joined as an assistant teacher.

She was associated with the Society for the Propagation of the Faith founded by Pauline Jaricot in 1822, where Perroton involved in fundraising for the missions.

[3] However she was accepted to accompany Captain Auguste Marceau 's Marist missionaries to Oceania in a trading vessel.

[4] After eleven months at sea, Perroton arrived in Wallis on 23 October 1846, but Bishop Pierre-Marie Bataillon, the Catholic priest there was reluctant to welcome her.