Jeanne Bernard

1651 - Bef 1715  (~ 66 years)

• Name	Jeanne Bernard
  Birth	Between 1649 and 1651	France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 22 Jun 1715  [1]
  Burial	22 Jun 1715	Montréal, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I33139	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TC
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Hugues Bernard,   b. France d. France
  Mother	Perrine Destournère
  Marriage	Bef 1649	France   [1]
  Family ID	F19566	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jacques Tuillier dit Desvignets,   b. Between 1635 and 1642   d. Bef 19 Aug 1710 (Age ~ 75 years)
  Marriage	29 Apr 1669	Montréal, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Angélique Tuillier,   b. Bef 17 Oct 1683   d. 19 Jan 1765 (Age > 81 years)
  Family ID	F19564	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2021

  
  

• 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.