Marie Arcular

1651 - 1718  (~ 75 years)

• Name	Marie Arcular
  Birth	Between 1643 and 1651	Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	1651	Paris, France   [2]
  Death	24 Apr 1718  [1, 2]
  Burial	25 Apr 1718	St-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orleans, L'Île-d'Orléans, Québec   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I45657	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	19 May 2026

  
  

  Father	Jean Arcular
  Mother	Catherine Coin
  Marriage	Bef 1643	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F26584	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Claude Lefebvre dit Boulanger,   b. 1649, Vigny, Val-D'Oise, France d. 12 Feb 1690 (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	28 Oct 1669	Ste-Famille, L'Île d'Orléans, Québec   [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. Claude Lefebvre dit Boulanger,   b. 9 May 1682   bur. 28 May 1725, St-Étienne, Beaumont, Bellechasse, Chaudière-Appalaches, Québec (Age ~ 43 years)
  Family ID	F26582	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 May 2026

  
  

• Notes

  She was a fille du rois, a "daughter of the king." By 1660 or so it had become apparent that the fledgling North American colony of New France was badly short of marriageable women. To ameliorate this, between 1663 and 1673 the French government recruited respectable young women of limited prospects and, after vetting them for suitability, provided each of them with a small dowry, a chest of clothes, and one-way passage to Quebec. The approximately 800 women who made this journey became known as the "filles du roi", the "daughters of the King." Millions of modern French-Canadians can trace their descent from them, quite often from several. She arrived 30 June 1669 on the St-Jean-Baptiste.

  
  

• Sources

  [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2025. [S8920] Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique (The Research Program in Historical Demography) (PRDH) database.