ABSTRACT: You constantly behold, with renewed astonishment, women in the very depths of indigence and want, perfectly instructed in their religion, ignorant of nothing that they should know to employ themselves usefully in their families and who, by their manners, their manner of expressing themselves and their politeness, are not inferior to the most carefully educated among us.
RÉSUMÉ: Les femmes I’emportent sur les hommes par la beaute, la vivacite, la gaite [sic] et l’enjouement; elles sont coquettes et galantes, preferent les Europeens aux gens du pays. Les manieres douces et polies sont communes, meme dans les
campagnes.
Atlantis, 7 (1981), 08-89.
Reprintings of this article in the following eleven editions of five textbooks:
“New France: Les Femmes Favorisées” in R.Francis and D. Smith, Readings in CanadianHistory: Before Confederation, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2002.
“New France: Les Femmes Favorisées”: in Wallace and Bray, Reappraisals in Canadian History, 1993, 1997.
“New France: Les Femmes Favorisées” in C. Wilton, ed. Change and Continuity, l992.
“New France: Les Femmes Favorisées” in Strong-Boag et al, Rethinking Canada, 1986, 1991, 1997).
“New France: Les Femmes Favorisées” in Prentice and Trofimenkoff, The Neglected Majority, vol.2, 1985.