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The King's Daughters ( French: filles du roi, or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) is a term used to refer to 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.
Sep 19, 2017 · The first King’s Daughters—or filles du roi —arrived in New France in 1663, and 800 more would follow over the next decade. Given their numbers, they were not literally the king’s daughters of...
The filles du roi were a group of about 700 immigrant women, single or widowed, who came to Canada between 1663-1673, having received royal financial support for their transport or establishment in New France.
The King's Daughter ( French: Jeanne, fille du Roy) is a historical novel for young adult readers by Suzanne Martel, first published in 1974. It follows the life of Jeanne Chatel, one of the King's Daughters of New France in the seventeenth century.
- Suzanne Martel
- 1974
Sep 8, 2016 · Les Filles du Roi – The King’s Daughters. From the time of the earliest French colonization of Québec in 1604 until 1663, there were only a handful of families living in that region. The majority of its small population was made up of hunters, trappers, French soldiers, a few explorers, a few priests, and some sailors.
We define the «Filles du roi» as the immigrants, single or widowed, who came to Canada between 1663 and 1673 and were presumed to have received royal support for their transportation or their settling.
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 emerging friendships with Kateri (Kaitlyn Yott) and Jean-Baptiste (Raes Calvert), a Mohawk sister and ...
