<i>Les Filles du Roi</i> (2023): Indigenizing and Feminizing the Québec Colonial Narrative, an Interview with Julie McIsaac and Kaitlyn Yott
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Abstract
Since about two thirds of the current Québec population are descended from approximately 770 filles du roi , unmarried or widowed women sent and sponsored by King Louis XIV between 1663 and 1673 to help “populate” New France, the traditional colonization narrative considers this project successful. However, Les Filles du Roi [ The King’s Daughters ], a Canadian musical film based on a stage musical and released in 2023, questions that narrative by exploring its historically misrepresented – or omitted – Indigenous and feminine sides. It depicts the interactions between Marie-Jeanne Lespérance, a young fille du roi , Jean-Baptiste, a Mohawk trapper-trader, and Kateri, his 14-year-old sister, who will lead their matrilineal society as a future clan mother. Overturning traditional seventeenth-century “ethnographic” texts, the film shows the male colonizers as “ sauvages ” while the filles du roi and Indigenous people present an alternate colonization narrative based on commonality, tolerance, openness to difference, acceptance of the Other, and creating a better future for all. Two film collaborators participated in an interview held on 8 March 2025: Julie McIsaac, who was co-executive producer, co-screenwriter, co-lyricist, and played Marie-Jeanne Lespérance, and Kaitlyn Yott, who played Kateri, the future clan mother, in both the play and the film.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it