Filles du Roy
Filles du Roy proper noun: a non-religious program composed of orphaned girls of France shipped to New France to populate French North America with Frenchmen, by providing wives to the bachelor colonial French traders.
Proper noun
Filles du Roy
- A non-religious program composed of orphaned girls of France shipped to New France to populate French North America with Frenchmen, by providing wives to the bachelor colonial French traders.
- Considered from our own historical vantage-point, the lot of the Filles du Roy certainly seems to have been less than enviable.1971, The cultural tradition of Canadian women: the historical background
- The Filles du roy were sent out from France to assure that the men would stay on the land.1981 Spring-Summer, Louise H. Forsyth, “The radical transformation of the mother-daughter relationship in some women writers of Quebec”, in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, volume 6, number 1/2
Forms of Filles du Roy
| alternative form | King's Daughters |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Filles du Roi |
Origin of Filles du Roy
From Middle French Filles du Roy.
Questions about Filles du Roy
- What does Filles du Roy mean?
- Filles du Roy means a non-religious program composed of orphaned girls of France shipped to New France to populate French North America with Frenchmen, by providing wives to the bachelor colonial French traders.
- What part of speech is Filles du Roy?
- Filles du Roy is a proper noun.
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