Between 1665 and 1672, Louis XIV, King of France, sent at his expense around 1000 young women to New France.
Fourteen-year-old Marie-Claude Chamois, one of the filles du roi, left France in 1670 for the New World (As portrayed Maude Richer-Lanciault.). These young women mostly came from the Paris area or the diocese of Rouen. They were poor, abandoned, and with no future in France. The King bestowed upon them a dowry of between 50 and 300 livres to settle them in the colony and thus increase its population. Marie-Claude Chamois was one of these women. This is her story:
Marie-Claude Chamois was the youngest of four children born to a well off Paris family. In 1669 she fled her home. A priest took her in and placed her in a shelter for abandoned women, poor children and the mentally ill.
"I was taken first to the Hospital de la Pitié in 1669 and then brought to the Salpetrière Hospital", she wrote. "I was baptized at Saint-Gervais de Paris, and raised by my mother until the age of 13 in the Faubourg St. Antoine", recounted Marie-Claude Chamois in remarks collected and published by the Chancellor of Aguesseau, "I had to flee to avoid the advances of my own brother who respected neither the Laws of Nature, Religion nor the Law."
A year later, her life was turned upside down once more. "I was chosen to join a number of others who had to cross to America, and I would have rather renounced my homeland and take a perilous voyage to the New World than beg my mother's help. I resigned myself to silence in an alien land, with neither friends, assistance nor parents condemned to a perpetual exile."
She arrived in Quebec in October 1670 and married François Frigon, a citizen of Batiscan. She was 14 years old. Marie-Claude Chamois and François Frigon had 7 children. They are the ancestors of every Frigon in North America.
Mercury does occur as the native metal, as well as in mercury salts. It has an attractive appearance with its mobile silvery look. Its Greek name was hydragyrumand the hydra part was for water, and the argyumwas for its silvery appearance, and from this we get the symbol Hg used in science.The original identification of this element is lost in pre-history. It was known to the ancient Egyptians from about 1500 BC, and a later (known) date from the Chinese.One of its uses is to amalgamate fine dust of gold, as obtained from alluvial gold workings, and the mercury may be reclaimed from the amalgam by squeezing in a chamois leather bag. Heating to boil off the mercury, and recovering the mercury by condensation, is another method.It must be emphasized that working with liquid mercury is hazardous, and mercury is toxic to humans.
Shammy is how you pronounce chamois
chamois comes from a sheep. it is the skin on a sheep.
A chamois is used to wash cars.
Steuart Laing has written: 'Chamois' -- subject(s): Chamois hunting, Chamois
"Chamois" is fundamentally a noun (meaning a kind of animal) but can also be used as a "substantive adjective" as in "chamois skin".
Chamois Niortais F.C. was created in 1925.
The chamois is a mountain goat. Some facts about the chamois are the fur turns grey in the winter, their horns are short and curved, and it is a solitary animal.
Chamois goes well with browns and other "earthy" tones.
The scientific name for a chamois is Rupicapra rupicapra.
SS Empire Chamois was created on 1918-05-21.
SS Empire Chamois ended on 1919-05-31.
Chamois are typically made from the skin of the Chamois goat or sheep. These animals have soft and absorbent leather that is commonly used for cleaning and polishing in various industries such as automotive and household cleaning.