The filles du roy, pioneers here.
Orphans of the Salpetriere, daughters of person, mothers of a new people, no one can dispute the courage of the filles du roy, important figures in our history.
They are pioneering a new country, born in France, shaped by America and its First Nations. Without
noble family, they will forever be noble by their choice: they agreed to leave their native France - where the obscurantism of the witch hunts still reigns, where rank determines your worth, where nobody wanted to them - to an uncertain fate, the new continent. In New France the opportunity to lay a new life. A better life? This depended of them ... and Providence. It accompanies their journey and allow them to reach the shore!
List miserable conditions of boat rides in the seventeenth century, and the many perils transatlantic take a chapter! It should be borne in mind that the sea voyages in those days that spared the strongest. Dehydration caused no nausea, poor hygiene, food and water damaged, too much proximity between passengers, storms pirates ... This odyssey lasted for months, according to the whims of the wind.
In those arrived on the mainland, new challenges were not long to wait. First, find a man to marry. Then, to clear land, build a house, the acres and acres of territory to traverse, on foot or by river from where the drowning claimed fresh victims. A new life as a journeyman with a complete stranger and a rebel peasant probably his relatives in France.
As it is far away, the old capital, the Paris of alleys and markets under the protection of the sisters could be dreaming of prince charming young ladies between!
then survive the elements: the fierce winter bites you its frostbite and isolate you in his snowbanks, the wet spring, summer and hungry insects, fall where everything has to be redone again to prepare for the season of scarcity. The endless cycle of seasons brought more chores. Protected by Louis XIV, the King's daughter had to abandon his dreams of a princess, bite the bullet and build this country with her two deft hands, with his soul, his belly, for generations to come.
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