Dionne Quintuplets : unsuccessful experiment of a Noble Society

The famous Dionne quintuplets: Annette, Emilie, Yvonne, Cecille and Marie were born in Canada on May 28, 1934. The girls became national celebrities, wards of the state in a special hospital-home, studied constantly by doctors and scientists. The paper describes Dionne girls' life story in the context of Anglophone - Francophone tensions and the ever present question: how far can state interfere in the lives of their citizens and when such interference proves to be harmful what kind of compensation measures should be implemented?