Download or read book Bride of New France: A Novel written by Suzanne Desrochers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the life of Laure Beausejour, a young, French orphan, who is transported as a fille du roi to the new, but primitive, Canadian colony as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV that sent eight hundred young women abroad to marry settlers.