Complex sentence: Dionne was born in 1846 to a modest rural family in Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie, near Kamouraska, the eldest of six boys and five girls born to Eusèbe Dionne and Amélie Lavoie.
Split into simpler sentences: Dionne was born in 1846 to a modest rural family in Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie, near Kamouraska. He was the eldest of six boys and five girls born to Eusèbe Dionne and Amélie Lavoie.