DCHP-3

King's girl

[trans. of F fille du roi]
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one of the women sent to New France by Louis XIV as wives for settlers.

Quotations

1940
To enable the bachelor to escape such punishments a thousand young women were sent out from France in eight years to find husbands. They were known as "the King's girls". . . .