The Portuguese also had a scheme called Órphãs do Rei, where they sent marriageable girls to the colonies.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Órfãs_do_Rei" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Órfãs_do_Rei</a>
For the french side (in french)
<a href="https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-pourquoi-du-comment-histoire/pourquoi-deportait-on-des-femmes-en-louisiane-4397490" rel="nofollow">https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-pourquo...</a><p>It's of course not some specific move just for Louisiana, France was sending trouble makers and people they didn't want in their society, men and women, to many other remote places that needed warm bodies.
Ironically, this reminds me of a quote from a French mathematician, philosopher:<p>“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -- Blaise Pascal
Did the author just make up a new term?<p>This doesn't feel accurate at all, but I'm not going to spend time debunking this with French sources.<p>Wikipedia really has to be taken with a grain of salt.
> Later researchers would remark that while none of the correction girls had apparently had children, the casquette girls had been remarkably fertile.<p>What does it mean?