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From: "Christain Piché" <>
Subject: Re: Jacques Lussier / Catherine Clerice (two questions)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 21:31:55 -0500


Hi all It seams I made a big mistake and I am sorry But hase I just wrote to
Joel explaining I received this info from our librarian.It serve a good
lesson to me to check out info. before passing it along sorry again before I
post any type of answere I will make sure I have all the informationcorrect
My best Rita Madaire
Joel Morin a crit dans le message
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>My goodness gracious, I don't think that's quite right ... Tu te trompes un
>peu...
>
>May I suggest http://204.50.177.183/roots/france.htm and/or
>http://204.50.177.183/roots/fillesdu.htm for links in English and franais
>to le Muse Canadien de la civilisation, the Canadian Museum of
>Civilization, le Muse de la civilisation du Qubec and le journal Le
Soleil
>de Qubec for some debunking on these fine people.
>
>I'm going to paste a quote from Louis-Guy Lemieux's "le Soleil" article
that
>provides a good introduction to the topic:
>
>Filles du roi ou filles de joie ? La question a divis les tmoins de
>l'poque. Plusieurs gnrations d'historiens canadiens-franais, de
Benjamin
>Sulte Sylvio Dumas en passant par le chanoine Lionel Groulx, ont
>dshabill ces pauvres filles sur la place publique pour tenter de prouver
>la puret de la race .
>
>La vrit est toute simple : les quelque 800 filles marier envoyes en
>Nouvelle-France par le roi Louis XIV taient des orphelines places dans
des
>asiles d'tat ou des institutions de charit. Elles taient pour la plupart
>pauvres et illettres. Les bateaux pour le Nouveau Monde reprsentaient la
>chance de leur vie. En France, elles auraient t filles de joie ou filles
>de rien. Ici, elles sont devenues des pionnires fcondes. C'est leur sang
>qui coule dans les veines d'une majorit de Qubcois francophones actuels
>
>The remariages are simple - if your wife dies and you have kids you need
>someone to keep the home and take care of the kids. If you don't have kids,
>you need some - so you get remarried. It's life. These people didn't get
>groceries at the local dpanneur.
>
>=/=/=/=/=/=/=
>
>C vaut la peine d'aller voir ces sites web car il y a de bonnes
>informations sur le sujet mal connu des filles du roi.
>
>Happy hunting / bonne chasse
>
>Joel
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Christain Pich <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Friday, April 02, 1999 14:23
>Subject: Re: Jacques Lussier / Catherine Clerice (two questions)
>
>
>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
>
>

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