Marie Reine Charpentier

1661 - Bef 1728  (~ 70 years)

• Name	Marie Reine Charpentier
  Birth	Between 1658 and 1661	St-Sulpice, Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	1658	St-Sulpice, Paris, France   [2]
  Death	Bef 25 Jan 1728  [1]
  Burial	25 Jan 1728	Montréal, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I45101	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	Bonaventure Charpentier
  Mother	Isabelle de Sens
  Marriage	Bef 1658	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F26292	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Louis Princeau,   b. Bef 29 Mar 1643   d. Bef 11 Jul 1681 (Age < 38 years)
  Marriage	28 Jul 1672	Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Le Cité-Limoilou, Québec City, Québec   [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Anne Princeau,   b. 5 Dec 1676   d. Bef 8 Jan 1759 (Age < 82 years)
  Family ID	F26290	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 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 15 Aug 1671 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.