bec. In 1953, Marie entered a convent in Quebec City and spent several months there. In 1954, Emilie died from an epileptic seizure, at the age of 20 in Saint-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec. She was the first of the quintuplets to die. The whole world was shocked, and the other sisters were devastated by their loss. Only three of the sisters married. Annette and Cecile married at twenty-three, and Marie at twenty-four. Marie had two children, Annette had three and Cecile five. Marie separated from her husband six years after her marriage. She died at the age of thirty-six in her Montreal apartment from a blood clot in her brain. During their life the quintuplets made advertisements for many different companies. They also made radio advertisements and they appeared on several magazines such as Life, Look, Screen, Time, Romance, and Liberty. There were even Quintuplet dolls and calendars. The quintuplets were bring in a lot of money with their popularity with Quintland. They basically saved the North Bay region from bankruptcy with the money they were making with Quintland and they were a five hundred millions dollar asset for the Government of Ontario. The Dionne sisters were supposed to inherit all the money that they had made during their lives at the age of twenty-one, but when their twenty-first birthday came along there was only $800 000 left. Fifty thousand dollars was used in the construction of their new three story, yellow brick Mansion built for the whole Dionne family. The girls also had to pay for the building of Quintland. They also had to pay the staff twenty-five thousand dollars a year. They paid a sum of five thousand dollars for public bathrooms at Quintland as well. The remaining sisters claimed two thirds of the money that was left and the remaining third went to the children. Today the three surviving quintuplet sisters, Yvonne, Annette, and Cecile, live in the town of St.Bruno, near Montreal. They are living in a nice q...
