Françoise Michel

Bef 1649 - Aft 1685  (> 36 years)

• Name	Françoise Michel
  Birth	Bef 18 Aug 1649  [1]
  Baptism	18 Aug 1649	Sennevoy-le Haut, Yonne, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 7 Oct 1685  [1]
  Person ID	I44445	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2026

  
  

  Father	Brigide Michaud
  Mother	Marguerite Matret
  Marriage	Bef 1645	Sennevoy-le Haut, Yonne, France   [1]
  Family ID	F3195	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gilles Dupont,   b. Abt 1636, Bourcourt, Brittany, France d. 24 Dec 1683 (Age ~ 47 years)
  Marriage	Between 18 Aug 1670 and 31 Dec 1670	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Françoise Dupont,   b. Abt 1671
  Family ID	F25942	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Feb 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2025.