USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The King’s Daughters (French: filles du roi or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) is a term used to refer to the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV.

Detailed explanation-2: -In order for New France to prosper, people were needed. Thus the King decided to send women to the colony. For a period of seven years, the King of France sent at his expense, several thousand young women to New France, whom, the majority of, came from the Paris area or the diocese of Rouen.

Detailed explanation-3: -The daughter of a king is called a princess.

Detailed explanation-4: -As Intendant of Justice, Police and Finance, Talon arranged for young women, or the filles du roi, to come from France in order to correct the gender imbalance and populate the colony. He diversified the economy by establishing a lumber trade and “manufactories” to produce wool and textile products.

Detailed explanation-5: -The majority of the “Filles du roi” [King’s Daughters] were impoverished orphans whose emigration was organized and supported by the royal administration.