The Filles du Roy were lower middle class, orphaned or unmarried women from respectable families. They were deliberately selected by royal authorities, religious institutions and parish clergy for their character, health and suitability for marriage.
Early arrivals were required to provide certificates of good conduct. Jean Talon specifically demanded attestations from priests or judges confirming that the women were legally free to marry.
Colbert even enlisted the Archbishop of Rouen to have parish priests recruit suitable candidates. King Louis XIV, Colbert and Talon wanted to establish stable, respectable families and an orderly colony.
You’re so fucking stupid and ignorant you even got the timeline wrong. The Filles du Roy arrived in 1663, two years before the Carignan Salières Regiment arrived in 1665. You have no idea what you’re talking about. On Thanksgiving no less you piece of shit.
‘If the Rhodesian army was pushed, it could conquer the whole of East and Central Africa in a week. The Rhodesian Air Force could reduce to ashes all the capitals of East and Central Africa in 24 hours. I have told Nkrumah and Balewa that no African army could rescue us. I am not deceived by parade armies. It is one thing to impress colleagues, but quite another thing on the battlefield. The Ghanaian Air Force is only a paper air force.’
- Hastings Banda, Prime Minister of Malawi, 1965
The Rhodesian Security Forces at this point consisted of less than 10,000 men.
Africa still has no functioning militaries. 1939 Europe would sweep the floor with them. It wouldn’t even be close.
It's absolutely insane for this guy to blame his country's ills on "neoliberalism" when French government spending as a percentage of the economy is currently higher than it was in the Soviet Union right before it collapsed.
France is currently running a 5% deficit to GDP, the nation's debt to GDP stands at nearly 120%, the country has one of the most generous welfare and entitlement systems in the world, and French Boomers living off taxpayer-funded pensions earn more than working adults.
Is the "neoliberalism" in the room right now?
Communists like Melenchon just throw around the word "neoliberalism" to mean "thing that I don't like", as if that's a sufficient distraction from the fact that the last 40 years have been ruled by their ideology.
Dries Van Langenhove is spot on, as usual. There is nothing we can do for Africans. Enslave them or worship them—they will hate us either way.
The only solution is separation. Remigration.
Alex knows likening people to Nazis leads to violence.
Questioning the influence of any foreign lobby in our media is perfectly valid, and Israel is no exception - especially at a time when they are pushing Britain to participate in their wars and are clearly attempting to use right-leaning domestic journalists like her to push that agenda.
Today is Thanksgiving Sunday.
Here is a compilation of Doug Ford pandering to foreigners and it gets pretty ridiculous.
I put this together from videos on his X account.
Oh hey this is really cool. As a Canadian I've been accused of stealing the land of the First Nations and even of complicity in their genocide. But now I'm finding out that actually I AM First Nations, because I was born here and that means I'm exactly the same as them. I can't steal land from myself, and I can't genocide myself. That's a huge relief, thank you for removing this burden!