I once visited the museum in Montréal about the history of these girls / young women. It’s in the old building where they initially stayed for a short time before they got married.
Highly educating, very interesting
Just a clarification because in the painting the women look rich and in fine dresses… there were a few women from good families who accompanied the poor girls initially/ or they were patrons who supported the scheme but didn’t travel to the New World themselves. They collected money and looked for political and financial support.
Those poor women, they faced incredible hardships. Almost all of them weren’t from a rural background but from big cities so they had no idea about farming or fishing. Most of them didn’t even know how to cook.
Also their husbands were forced to marry them, so while I still think that it was worse for women, it wasn’t fun for the men neither.
I read the letter that started all this, it was a priest saying basically « over a thousand dudes are going crazy fighting for attention from the 50 or so women we have here, they’re killing each other and/or getting and spreading stds from natives, please for fucks sake, send women or we’re all gonna die »
Oh and those women were not prostitutes, they were volunteers that were given a lot of money and land to come here. Lot of single ladies or widows wanting to reset their lives.
They weren’t all woman, some were little girls by today’s standards. Ages started about 10-12. I remember this vividly learning in class because I was deeply disturbed they were close to my age.
I found a few of the filles de roi in my family tree. Very interesting history. I wouldn’t have wanted to be one of them. It was probably not an easy life for some.
My 6th(ish) great grandfather married a filles du Roi. There are many court records pertaining to the unhappy marriage. They had 6 kids together. Only 1 daughter survived from this marriage long enough to have kids. When his filles du Roi wife died, he remarried a young woman who was born in Quebec. It appears to have been a happier marriage. They had two kids, the youngest just 6 months old when he died. That one 6 month old was his only surviving son who basically populated the whole of eastern canada and the united states with his last name. If you have this last name, you descended from him. It’s quite amazing.
Honestly the last 1/3rd are probably those whose families haven’t cared to do any family history research. And even then, it’s likely not just French Canadians but virtually everyone in Canada and the US with even remote pre-1763 French familial roots is likely a descendant of at least one of these ladies.
Hell even Ricky Gervais and Beyonce Knowles, among numerous others, are both known descendants of [Zacharie Cloutier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharie_Cloutier#), one of the earliest French Canadian settlers with one of the biggest known progenies, and I’d easily wager the two of them also have filles du roi ancestors as well.
I’m a descendent of 19 of them as far as my family can be traced, and I’m only part French Canadian! The last French Canadian in my family was one of my great-great grandparents.
Not just French Canadians. An estimated 20 million Canadians and Americans are descendants of the filles du roi. A lot of their families ended up in northern US to farm – mine included
The French callled it **Canada**. It’s inhabitants called themselves ***Canadiens***
*Canada* was a region of *New-France* alongisde *Louisiana*, *Acadia* and *Plaisance*
The name **Province of Quebec** was given by the conquering Brirish in 1763
British settlers only started appropriating ~~the name Canada~~ (EDIT: the name **Canadian as a national identity**) in the 20th century, alongside the national anthem (le chant national)
It wasn’t until the 60s and the **Quiet Revolution** that nationalists started using Quebec as an national identity to distance themselves from the heavily catholic *French Canadiens* from other provinces
A family member did our family tree on my grandmothers side and we found out we are related to one of the King’s Daughters! We found her gravestone as well.
I think they tried the same thing in New Orleans but the women mostly died of diseases either on the way over, or shortly after staying. There is an Ursuline convent in the French Quarter where they stayed.
This is why he’s regarded as the best French king ever. Imagine that you’re on the other side of the world and lonely. No problem. Your king’s got your back fam. Here’s 800 for you to choose from.
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Those must have been some seriously brave women…
I once visited the museum in Montréal about the history of these girls / young women. It’s in the old building where they initially stayed for a short time before they got married.
Highly educating, very interesting
Just a clarification because in the painting the women look rich and in fine dresses… there were a few women from good families who accompanied the poor girls initially/ or they were patrons who supported the scheme but didn’t travel to the New World themselves. They collected money and looked for political and financial support.
Those poor women, they faced incredible hardships. Almost all of them weren’t from a rural background but from big cities so they had no idea about farming or fishing. Most of them didn’t even know how to cook.
Also their husbands were forced to marry them, so while I still think that it was worse for women, it wasn’t fun for the men neither.
I read the letter that started all this, it was a priest saying basically « over a thousand dudes are going crazy fighting for attention from the 50 or so women we have here, they’re killing each other and/or getting and spreading stds from natives, please for fucks sake, send women or we’re all gonna die »
Oh and those women were not prostitutes, they were volunteers that were given a lot of money and land to come here. Lot of single ladies or widows wanting to reset their lives.
Hillary Clinton. Angelina Jolie, and Madonna are supposedly among the descendants
My family is this. They were called Les filles du roix the daughters of the king.
I’m a descendant!
Supposedly the Quebec accent is more similar to the one during Louis XIV times than the one in France today.
They weren’t all woman, some were little girls by today’s standards. Ages started about 10-12. I remember this vividly learning in class because I was deeply disturbed they were close to my age.
I found a few of the filles de roi in my family tree. Very interesting history. I wouldn’t have wanted to be one of them. It was probably not an easy life for some.
Cousin?
Have womb will travel.
When your city layout doubles as a flex and a history lesson visible from orbit.
My 6th(ish) great grandfather married a filles du Roi. There are many court records pertaining to the unhappy marriage. They had 6 kids together. Only 1 daughter survived from this marriage long enough to have kids. When his filles du Roi wife died, he remarried a young woman who was born in Quebec. It appears to have been a happier marriage. They had two kids, the youngest just 6 months old when he died. That one 6 month old was his only surviving son who basically populated the whole of eastern canada and the united states with his last name. If you have this last name, you descended from him. It’s quite amazing.
Honestly the last 1/3rd are probably those whose families haven’t cared to do any family history research. And even then, it’s likely not just French Canadians but virtually everyone in Canada and the US with even remote pre-1763 French familial roots is likely a descendant of at least one of these ladies.
Hell even Ricky Gervais and Beyonce Knowles, among numerous others, are both known descendants of [Zacharie Cloutier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharie_Cloutier#), one of the earliest French Canadian settlers with one of the biggest known progenies, and I’d easily wager the two of them also have filles du roi ancestors as well.
I’m a descendent of 19 of them as far as my family can be traced, and I’m only part French Canadian! The last French Canadian in my family was one of my great-great grandparents.
Make it sounds like a fun trip but living in Quebec in the late 15th century was no picnic. No Netflix in winter.
My grandmother was French Canadian, and my lineage runs right through one of these ladies. So I guess I can thank Louis XIV.
Les Filles du Roi
Not just French Canadians. An estimated 20 million Canadians and Americans are descendants of the filles du roi. A lot of their families ended up in northern US to farm – mine included
# *Canada
The French callled it **Canada**. It’s inhabitants called themselves ***Canadiens***
*Canada* was a region of *New-France* alongisde *Louisiana*, *Acadia* and *Plaisance*
The name **Province of Quebec** was given by the conquering Brirish in 1763
British settlers only started appropriating ~~the name Canada~~ (EDIT: the name **Canadian as a national identity**) in the 20th century, alongside the national anthem (le chant national)
It wasn’t until the 60s and the **Quiet Revolution** that nationalists started using Quebec as an national identity to distance themselves from the heavily catholic *French Canadiens* from other provinces
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Did anyone else read Jeanne fille du roy as a kid?
Les filles du roix, daughters of the king. Learned about them in middle school. Can’t imagine how brave they must’ve been to take on such a journey.
A family member did our family tree on my grandmothers side and we found out we are related to one of the King’s Daughters! We found her gravestone as well.
French Canadian here, with a French Canadian wife… that … errrr… means we have 66% chances of being siblings of the “fesse gauche”?
I am one of those Canadians that can trace my heritage right back to new france.
I visited the monastery in Quebec city where my family first registered their names with the church.
I’m a Vallières!!
One of my family members wrote the manifesto that started the FLQ.
I think they tried the same thing in New Orleans but the women mostly died of diseases either on the way over, or shortly after staying. There is an Ursuline convent in the French Quarter where they stayed.
So they emerged from a 2 month sea journey in ball gowns, ready for action?
This is why he’s regarded as the best French king ever. Imagine that you’re on the other side of the world and lonely. No problem. Your king’s got your back fam. Here’s 800 for you to choose from.
And that boys and girls, is how Canada got beavers…
Yeah, my family is included. In Quebec since 1654
Recently learned that my mother’s side of the family is descended from one of them, extended family on the East Coast keeps a massive family tree.
Filles du roi, thank you very much!
Grew up in Quebec LOL
A point to add:
In 1663, there were only about 3000 people in what is now Quebec.
Between this and being a direct descendant of an OG quebecois founder, that end of my gene pool is quite shallow.
Sounds like a good movie
It explains the accent and the dialect spoken by the Québécois, so different from the Acadian and lost in France after the revolution.