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Reviewed on February 1, 2024 | Fiction
Early 18th-century men who settled in the French colony of La Louisiane, in the Americas, are desperate for wives from their home country, France. The Superioress of La Salpêtrière, a Parisian institution that serves as a women's hospital, prison, and orphanage, is instructed to provide a list to government authorities of fertile and obedient young women to send to Louisiana as potential brides. Pétronille, Geneviève, an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
