Filles du Roy
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英文释义
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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.
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From Middle French Filles du Roy.
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