Filles du Roy

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  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.
    — Considered from our own historical vantage-point, the lot of the Filles du Roy certainly seems to have been less than enviable.

词形变化

King's Daughters alternative Filles du Roi alternative

词源

From Middle French Filles du Roy.
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