In June, 1671 Jeanne Marguerite Chevalier left France to find a new life in Quebec, as a Fille du Roi (King\'s Daughter) sent by Louis XIV to help settle the new colony.
Her marriage with the third one broug.
Impoverished by her first husband, she worked with the second to establish one of the largest landholdings in the region.
Arriving two months later, this remarkable woman went on to marry and then outlive three husbands and survive the births of nine children and the deaths of six of them.
In June, 1671 Jeanne Marguerite Chevalier left France to find a new life in Quebec, as a Fille du Roi (King\'s Daughter) sent by Louis XIV to help settle the new colony