Jeanne immediately agrees to this and sets out to New France with her friend Marie. At the age of 18, Jeanne is offered the chance to become a King's Daughter and travel to New France. She also shows an aptitude for healing and herbal medicine. She is an adventurous, boisterous girl, creating and telling the other girls grand, romantic stories about herself and her friend, Thierry. Unable to survive alone, Jeanne is forced to enter a convent. Jeanne Chatel is an orphan from a once prosperous family who lived with her grandfather until he died of illness when Jeanne was 10. It follows the life of Jeanne Chatel, one of the King's Daughters of New France in the seventeenth century. The King's Daughter ( French: Jeanne, fille du Roy) is a historical novel for young adult readers by Suzanne Martel, first published in 1974.
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