Françoise Duval

1653 - Bef 1725  (~ 78 years)

• Name	Françoise Duval
  Birth	Between 1647 and 1653	Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 27 Oct 1725  [1]
  Burial	27 Oct 1725	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I31758	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Pierre Duval,   b. France d. France
  Mother	Jacquette Durand,   b. France d. France
  Marriage	Bef 1647	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F18959	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pierre Courraud,   b. Abt 1630, Saint-Germain, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France d. 4 May 1680 (Age ~ 50 years)
  Marriage	16 Nov 1671	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Louis Courrad dit Coulon,   b. 17 Dec 1673   d. 25 Dec 1699 (Age 26 years)
  Family ID	F18955	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Mar 2020

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.