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From: "Christain Piché" <>
Subject: Re: Jacques Lussier / Catherine Clerice (two questions)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 14:23:04 -0500


Hi Fille du Roi where girls that the King sent over to increase the
population.I was told that they where from poor families or prostituts and
sometimes orphanes they hade a contract with the king to get maried when
they arrived here.The men that where allready here to get land they hade to
get maried so they to hade a contract.That is why if there wife died they
remaried within a couple of months so they would not loos the lands or
concession it was a cold life no fealing.
Rita Madaire researching Madaire Madere
ABouch8282 a crit dans le message
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>Does anyone know anything about these two ancestors of mine from before
they
>left France? I know that Jacques came over to Canada as an indentured
servent.
>Also, I have references to Catherine (and Jacques' first wife, also) as
being a
>"fille du roi". I do not know what this expression means (other than the
>word-for-word translation), can anyone explain what a fille du roi is?
>
>Jacques was born in Paris in 1646 and died in Quebec in 1713. Catherine was
>born in Paris in 1653 and died in 1714/15 in Varennes, Canada. They were
>married in Boucherville, Quebec.
>
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>
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shots."
>
> -- Voltaire
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