Marie Pierette Vallée

- 1676

• Name	Marie Pierette Vallée  [1]
  Birth	Châlons-sur-Marne, Marne, France   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	5 May 1676  [2, 3]
  Burial	6 May 1676	Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Le Cité-Limoilou, Québec City, Québec   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I45573	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	20 May 2026

  
  

  Father	Nicolas Vallée
  Mother	Madeleine Major
  Marriage	Bef 1653	Châlons-sur-Marne, Marne, France   [2]
  Family ID	F26541	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jean Bourassa,   b. Between 1629 and 1631, St-Fulgent, Vendée, France d. 20 Jan 1718 (Age ~ 89 years)
  Marriage	20 Oct 1665	Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Le Cité-Limoilou, Québec City, Québec   [2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Madeleine Bourassa,   b. 13 Sep 1673   d. 9 Mar 1742 (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F26539	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 May 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 18 June 1665 of the St-Jean-Baptiste de Dieppe.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9090] Fur Trade Families of Quebec: Jean Nicolet by Gail Morin. 2021. [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.