« Les Canadiennes se sont éprises des Anglais? » Les alliances mixtes chez la noblesse canadienne après la Conquête (1760-1800)

Abstract

Signed in 1763, the Treaty of Paris reserved many implications to the Canadian nobility. In fact, they were forced to adapt some of their practices in order to maintain their social status. During the forty years following the Conquête, 30 girls and 8 boys (for a total of 38 nobles) were given away to marriage to non francophone spouses, mostly of a lower societal rank. The spouses of noble women benefited more of these alliances on a social and professional scale than the noble francophone fathers. By their diverse features, the three wedlocks occurred in the Godefroy and Tonnancour families illustrate some particularities in heterogeneous couples implying a noble spouse.