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  • Written by: Suzanne Desrochers
  • Narrated by: Emma Bering
  • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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Bride of New France

Written by: Suzanne Desrochers
Narrated by: Emma Bering
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Publisher's Summary

Laure Beausejour 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.
©2012 Suzanne Desrochers (P)2012 Random House Audio
Historical Fiction
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“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 best-selling The Kitchen House)

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good story, reading pace was too slow

the story was very good and I liked the history part of it. the reading pace was too slow and not necessary to portrait the main character.

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Everything I hoped it would be.

I've been interested in Filles des Roi since I first learned about them in history class in Ontario.
This story was romantic and suspenseful and brutally honest. By the end the main character felt like a person I knew.
Wonderful work. I will reccomend to others.

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