Most children are very perceptive.
They often knickname their teachers and other adults in an extremely accurate manner. Rose was the daughter of an active political father, Pierre Francois Duchesne who practiced law in Grenoble in the South of France. Her mother was a gentlewoman from the province of Dauphine. Like most girls of such a family, she was sent to a convent school under the direction of the Visitation nuns. She became attracted to religious life there and the first encounter with opposition occurred.