Marie Anne Langlois

1651 - 1724  (74 years)

• Name	Marie Anne Langlois
  Birth	Between 1650 and 1651	Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	6 Dec 1724  [1, 2]
  Burial	7 Dec 1724	St-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orleans, L'Île-d'Orléans, Québec   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I46226	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of GR
  Last Modified	4 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Philippe Langlois
  Mother	Marie Binet,   b. Between 1621 and 1627, Paris, France d. 16 Dec 1703 (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1650	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F26880	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	René Couchon dit Laverdière,   b. Bef 4 Sep 1640   d. 12 Dec 1714 (Age > 74 years)
  Marriage	10 Nov 1670	Ste-Famille, L'Île d'Orléans, Québec   [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. Louis Couchon dit Laverdière,   b. 10 Sep 1671   d. Bef 23 Mar 1748 (Age < 76 years)
  Family ID	F26876	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jun 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 31 Jul 1670 on the Nouvelle France.

  
  

• 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.