USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -They were called “daughters of the king” because Louis XIV paid for their recruitment, clothing and passage to the new world and offered dowries to the women when they married.

Detailed explanation-2: -As a fille du roi, a woman received the king’s support in several ways. The king paid one hundred livres to the French East India Company for each woman’s crossing, as well as furnishing her trousseau.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Filles du Roi, or King’s Daughters, had one mission: populate the colony of New France. From 1663 to 1673, these 800 or so women were shipped from France under the financial sponsorship of King Louis XIV to find male suitors and start families in one of the nation’s most geographically significant colonies.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Filles du roi, or King’s Daughters, were some 768 women who arrived in the colony of New France (Canada) between 1663 and 1673, under the financial sponsorship of King Louis XIV of France. Most were single French women and many were orphans.

Detailed explanation-5: -Louis XIV integrated New France into the royal domain, endowed it with a new administration and founded the French West India Company. By the Treaty of Utrecht, France ceded most of Acadia to the Kingdom of Great Britain as well as its claims on Newfoundland and Hudson’s Bay.