English Explanatory Dictionary

Filles du Roy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. 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.

Word forms

Filles du Roy King's Daughters Filles du Roi

Etymology

From Middle French Filles du Roy.

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