Correction girls

Correction girls was a term describing women who were forcibly shipped from France to its colonies in America as brides for its colonists during the early 18th century.

Many of its settlers were there unwillingly, taking the earliest opportunities available to return to France, while others were more interested in exploration and hunting furs than in farming.

[2] Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville felt that Indian-French marriages were detrimental to development of the colony and that the settlers should instead marry French women.

[1]: 17–18 The first group of prospective wives sent to Louisiana were the casquette or Pelican girls, recruited from orphans and convents and selected for virtue and piety.

[1]: 48 [2] Some women selected for forced immigration were chained and marched across France, a display intended to deter potential criminals.