King's Daughters
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The King's Daughters were the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV. The program was designed to boos
Commemorative plaque in Dieppe of the departure of the Filles du Roy, 1663-1673
The Arrival of the French Girls at Quebec, 1667. Watercolour by Charles William Jefferys
André Bessette
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André Bessette, C.S.C., commonly known as Brother André and since his canonization as Saint André of Montreal, was a lay brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross and a significant figure of the Catho
King's Daughters
…carrying the filles du roi would travel up the Saint Lawrence River, stopping first at Quebec City, then at Trois-Rivières, and lastly at Montreal. Saint André Bessette, "Brother Andre", descendant of fille du roi Anne Le Seigneur (1649-1733). Anne Le Seigneur has been mis-identified as Anne Seigneur by Peter Gagne in…
Saint André Bessette
Brother André (ca. 1920)
Stained glass window with Andre Bessette at Stinson Remick Chapel at the University of Notre Dame
Statue of André Bessette by Joseph-Émile Brunet on the grounds of Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, QC, Canada