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Synopsis
Synopsis
“Bride of New France is the best piece of historical fiction I’ve read in a long time.” –Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, New Brunswick)
Laure Beauséjour has grown up in a dormitory in Paris surrounded by prostitutes, the insane, and other forgotten women. Despite numerous hardships, she dreams of using her needlework skills to become a seamstress and one day marry a nobleman. But in 1669, Laure’s dreams are cruelly dashed when she is sent across the Atlantic to New France as a fille du roi. Powerful and haunting, Bride of New France is a remarkable tale of a French girl and her struggle to survive in a brutal time and place.
Emma Bering
About Emma Bering
Emma Bering has worked in film, theatre and television both in France and in the US. Her television credits include Over There, Alias, The Drew Carey Show, Mad About You, The Bold and the Beautiful and Days of our Lives.