Filles du Roi

A form of 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.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Filles du Roy.

Origin

  1. FrenchFilles du Roi
  2. EnglishFilles du Roi

From French Filles du Roi.

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Filles du Roi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Filles%20du%20Roi

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