Editing Mail-order bride (section)

====French colonies====
France took a similar tactic in the mid-1600s, recruiting and sponsoring approximately 800 women to emigrate to [[New France]]. These mail-order brides were known as the [[King's Daughters|filles du roi]] ({{langx|fr|link=no|filles du roi}} or {{langx|fr|filles du roy|label=none}} in the spelling of the era).{{r|lanctot|pp=9, 102}} The New France colony followed the same patterns as Jamestown: male settlers returned home or married Native American women and left the colony to live with their wives' tribes. For the filles du roi, the government not only paid to recruit and transport them, it also provided each woman with a dowry of at least 50 [[French livre|livres]]. As with the "tobacco wives" of Jamestown, the filles du roi had the right to choose their partners and could refuse any suitor. Genetic studies of [[French Canadians]] have suggested that millions of people in Canada today are descended from the filles du roi.{{r|zug|pp=30–41]}}

When New France began its [[Louisiana (New France)|Louisiana]] colony in 1699, it requested more mail-order brides. These were known as [[casquette girl|Pelican girls]] (for the first ship that brought women to the colony, ''[[French ship Pélican (1702)|Le Pélican]]''). This program was not successful; the women had been recruited with false descriptions of the struggling colony and had many complaints about their treatment. When women in France heard of the terrible conditions and of how the Pelican girls had been treated, the government was unable to recruit many more mail-order brides. France had to resort to shipping over thieves and prostitutes, known as "correction girls".{{r|zug|p=51-54}}