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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 ...
A daughter was known as a fille de France (French pronunciation: [fij də fʁɑ̃s], Daughter of France). The children of the dauphin (a title reserved for the king's heir apparent , whether son, grandson or great-grandson of the monarch) were accorded the same style and status as if they were the king's children instead of his grandchildren or ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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This grotto enjoyed immediate success and was praised by Pierre de Ronsard in his "Chant pastoral sur les noces de Charles, duc de Lorraine et Madame Claude, fille du roi" (Pastoral Song on the Wedding of Charles, Duke of Lorraine and Madame Claude, Daughter of the King). [10]