Marie Bardou

- 1688

• Name	Marie Bardou
  Birth	Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie, Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	11 Jan 1688  [1]
  Burial	13 Jan 1688	Sorel, Le Bas-Richelieu, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I33226	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TC
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	César Bardou,   b. France d. France
  Mother	Élisabeth Leclerc,   b. France d. France
  Marriage	Bef 1657	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19611	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mathurin Drouet dit Grandmaison,   b. Tuzie, Charente, France d. Aft 19 Mar 1699
  Marriage	30 Sep 1669	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Élisabeth Drouet dit Grandmaison,   b. 1 Mar 1683
  Family ID	F19609	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Or Bardeau. 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.