The original Canadian mail-order bride, Les filles du roi (the King's daughter), was usually a poor or homeless gal who was sent to la Nouvelle France by government authorities desperate for people to colonise the new land. At first this seemed a grim prospect; at least at home Marie Antoinette would let them eat cake, but a life of nothing but poutine and Jos'Louis pastries? Ayoye! Alas, les filles du roi ultimately did fare better than le roi Louis XVI lui-même and his beloved Marie "qu'on mange de la brioche!" Antoinette, as landing in the backwaters of Canada is marginally preferable to landing in a basket head-first during la révolution française.
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