Françoise Lefrançois

1649 - Bef 1699  (~ 58 years)

• Name	Françoise Lefrançois
  Birth	Between 1641 and 1649	Notre-Dame D'Ouville-la-Bien-Tournée, Lisieux, Calvados, Normandy, France   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 10 Jun 1699  [1, 2]
  Burial	10 Jun 1699	Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Le Cité-Limoilou, Québec City, Québec   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I45071	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	Antoine Lefrançois
  Mother	Paquette Renard
  Marriage	Bef 1641	Notre-Dame D'Ouville-la-Bien-Tournée, Lisieux, Calvados, Normandy, France   [1]
  Family ID	F26277	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	François Lavergne,   b. Between 1642 and 1649, St-Michel-des-Lions, Limoges, Haut-Vienne, France d. 27 Jun 1714 (Age ~ 72 years)
  Marriage	19 Oct 1671	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Arnoul Lavergne,   b. 13 Aug 1672, Trois-Rivières, Mauricie, Québec d. Bef 12 Jan 1712 (Age < 39 years)
  Family ID	F26275	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 30 Jul 1671 on the Prince Maurice.

  
  

• 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.