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The King's Daughters (French: filles du roi [fij dy ʁwa], or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) were the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV. The program was designed to boost New France's population both by encouraging Frenchmen to move ...
Les Filles du Roi (French pronunciation: [le fij dy ʁwa]) is a Canadian musical drama film, directed by Corey Payette and released in 2023. [1] Written by Payette and Julie McIsaac, the film presents a feminist and Indigenous spin on the colonization of Canada through the story of Marie-Jeanne Lespérance (Julie McIsaac), a French fille du roy in New France in the 17th century, and her ...
Contrary to the 'filles du roi' program in New France, many of the casquette girls were prostituted in France, and admitted to a mental health hospital there because of their occupation. [5] Women were then sent directly to New Orleans. The first set of women came to New Orleans in 1720 after being shipped over in the prison ship, La Mutine.
It was a temporary home for some of the King's Wards, also called the King's Daughters, or filles du roi. On the property, the sisters produced food and products to support the Congrégation de Notre-Dame, new settlers, and others in need. [8] Today the property has been developed as a living museum of farming and historic times.
France also relocated young women orphans known as King's Daughters (French: filles du roi) to their colonies for marriage to both Canada and Louisiana. France recruited willing farm- and city-dwelling women, known as casket or casquette girls , because they brought all their possessions to the colonies in a small trunk or casket.
Marguerite Bourgeoys, CND (French pronunciation: [maʁɡəʁit buʁʒwa]; 17 April 1620 – 12 January 1700), was a French religious sister and founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal in the colony of New France, now part of Québec, Canada. Born in Troyes, she became part of a sodality, ministering to the poor from outside the ...
Although the majority of the regiment returned to France in 1668, about 450 remained behind to settle in Canada. These men were encouraged to marry. Many of them married the young women known as Les Filles du Roi. This term is used to refer to the approximately 800 young French women who emigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of ...
The King's Daughters (les filles du roi) were among the first French women to settle in New France, becoming the ancestors of many claiming pure laine ancestry.. The genealogy of the pure laine – dating back to original settlers of New France in the seventeenth century – has been the subject of detailed research.