The story of the two Jouve sisters takes us back to Philippine's monastery in Grenoble, Ste Marie d'En Haut. When Philippine met Madeleine Sophie and joined the Society of the Sacred Heart, she handed over Ste Marie with its boarding school to the Society. Soon Philippine's sister Charlotte Euphrosine Jouve sent her daughters there to be educated by their aunt and her new community.

The eldest girl, born in 1795, was also Euphrosine; she went to school at Ste Marie at the age of eight. According to Tante Philippine's reports to the child's parents, the little girl was something of a handful: "At catechism class she talks more than I do, corrects those who make mistakes…But what use is fruitless knowledge without…modesty, piety and ambition? On these points she has a long way to go. But she is too strong a character ever to waver in her principles; she is made for great things."

Euphrosine went home after a few years to help her mother in raising their numerous family: there were fifteen children in all. She returned to her monastery school in 1814, this time as a postulant. With the habit she took the name of Aloysia. After her first vows, no doubt influenced by her aunt, she expressed an eagerness to be a foreign missionary, but she had a premonition: "I don't know what is happening to me, but it is certain that God is asking some great sacrifice…I shall die at Sainte Marie." Before long she developed an incurable sore on her foot, and evidence of debilitating illness followed.

Philippine was then preparing to leave for America and longed to take her niece with her. She wrote to her, "God, who sees how wide are your desires, thinks it well that they should be repressed that he may purify them…I am soon leaving France, dear Aloysia. Envy my happiness and enjoy your own."

Aloysia's final profession was advanced and, in an act of faith, Madeleine Sophie Barat named her mistress of novices. For two years Aloysia dragged herself on crutches along the corridors of the old monastery, literally spending her life for others. When she finally went to the infirmary for good, she asked a novice to play the guitar in her room to make it cheerful for visitors. Among her visitors was her younger sister Amélie, who inherited both Aloysia's vocation and her call to missionary life.

Aloysia Jouve died on January 21, 1821, at the age of twenty-four. Her biography was written, and Mother Barat sent a copy to the novices in America with the words:

To encourage you in the practice of a life so noble and so worthy of the heavenly Spouse who has called you, I am sending you a copy of the life of Mother Duchesne's niece. You will see that she lived a long life of virtue in a few years. You will be encouraged by her example and will say to each other, ‘Why can we not do as much?'

Mother Barat challenged the whole Society, present and future, when she said wistfully of Aloysia, "It is thus I dreamed they would all be."

Like her older sister, Amélie Jouve was sent to school at Ste Marie. She seems not to have given complete satisfaction to her headmistress-aunt any more than Euphrosine had. Philippine wrote to her sister, "Amélie is very negligent about her little personal things, but she promises much for piety and good conduct and also for study. She does not work to develop her character, dreading to make the least effort." In spite of these defects, she was accepted later for the Society and entered the novitiate in Paris in 1821, not long after her holy sister died. She too received the name of Aloysia upon taking the habit on June 21, feast of St. Aloysius.

After her religious profession, Amélie Jouve worked at the Rue de Varenne in the school. She also served for a time as mistress general at Conflans. In 1843 she returned to Paris, where she was in charge of the nuns' infirmary. She cared for Eugénie de Gramont who was dying.

In 1847, Amélie followed Philippine to the New World. She was destined for Canada, but Mother Barat sent her by way of St. Louis with letters and greetings for her aunt. Philippine was in her last years and feeling acutely the lack of contact with France and Madeleine Sophie in particular. Amélie wrote to Mother Barat, "After reading your letter, Mother Duchesne was transported with joy. Tears rolled down her cheeks…"

After two weeks in Missouri where she was met with affection in every house, Amélie went north to Saint Vincent, where after some months she was named superior. Philippine wrote to her sister Mme Jouve, "It would be difficult to put into words the pleasure that Amélie's visit gave me. More than thirty years have passed since I last saw her, and during that time she has acquired much virtue. Do not worry about her health. Canada is a very healthful place."

In 1855 Amélie was sent to Louisiana as superior of the vice-vicariate, with residence in Grand Coteau. Soon all the southern convents were ravaged by yellow fever; then came the greater anguish of the Civil War. Reverend Mother Jouve wrote:

The great plains of Atakapas have become a military route, making it possible for us to witness the passage of three army divisions in less than a year. The most complete devastation has been the result. Foreseeing the future, we believed it our duty to instruct our children and initiate them into the new situation that Providence was preparing for them. Advising them to free their slaves and dividing our students into bands, we formed them for domestic duties; they were employed by turns in the dormitory, the refectory, the kitchen, in washing dishes and in mending. Several even wished to learn to milk the cows.

In the midst of all this came a letter from the motherhouse calling Mother Jouve to the General Congregation of 1864, the last at which Mother Barat presided. She set out for Paris, making her way by mule cart through the war ravaged South to New York. She was never to return to America. Once in France, Amélie Jouve was named vicar in Brittany. In 1867 she went to Orleans where she presided again over a house in a war zone, this time it was the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. With her sisters, she cared for the wounded. She celebrated her golden jubilee in 1879 and died in Orleans in January 1880. To the end, she served as a link between the French and American convents by correspondence and prayerful remembrance of her beloved Louisiana.