Bride of New France, Suzanne Desrochers
Bride of New France, Suzanne Desrochers
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Bride of New France

Author: Suzanne Desrochers

Narrator: Emma Bering

Unabridged: 10 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/07/2012

Synopsis

“Bride of New France is the best piece of historical fiction I’ve read in a long time.”  –Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, New Brunswick)
 
Laure Beauséjour has grown up in a dormitory in Paris surrounded by prostitutes, the insane, and other forgotten women. Despite numerous hardships, she dreams of using her needlework skills to become a seamstress and one day marry a nobleman. But in 1669, Laure’s dreams are cruelly dashed when she is sent across the Atlantic to New France as a fille du roi. Powerful and haunting, Bride of New France is a remarkable tale of a French girl and her struggle to survive in a brutal time and place.

About The Author

SUZANNE DESROCHERS grew up in the French-Canadian village of Lafontaine on the shores of Georgian Bay, Ontario. She currently lives in London, U.K., with her husband and son. She is completing a Ph.D. thesis at King’s College comparing the migration to colonial North America of women from Paris with those from London. She also wrote her M.A. thesis on the filles du roi, combining creative writing and history, at York University in Toronto.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Constantine

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Historical Fiction This is a story that follows a young woman who was raised in an orphanage in Paris. Laure Beausejour then finds herself taken to Canada and to be married there (New France) as the King’s daughter with the mission to populate the new colony. The book focuses a lot o......more

Goodreads review by Doreen

This novel came with a "National Bestseller" label and a glowing recommendation by Joseph Boyden, one of my favourite authors, but I was disappointed. The book tells the story of Laure Beausejour, one of the filles du roi sent by royal decree to New France between 1663 and 1673 to become marriage par......more

Goodreads review by Allison

I bought this book because I have always been interested in the history of the King's Daughters and Québec history because it's part of my personal history and that of Canada. I remembered VERY romanticized versions of the filles story in elementary school( as if Louis XIV had personally brought the......more

Quotes

"a wholly original example of social history at its best" - John Barber, The Globe and Mail

“a fully imagined but deeply grounded novel” - John Barber, The Globe and Mail

“Bride of New France will not silence critics of the new social history, nor is it meant to. But if they do want to bring the past alive for a new generation, as they typically claim, they could never find a text more likely to engage the minds and imaginations of young people, especially girls, who have grown immune to the conventional narratives.” - John Barber, The Globe and Mail

“A moody, beautiful piece of historical fiction.” - Dana Medoro, Winnipeg Free Press

"A haunting story of a courageous young woman." - Kathleen Grissom, author of the bestselling The Kitchen House

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