The majority of les Filles du roi who married in New France led a simple life. They have not, like others, been written about to any great extent. The story that follows is that of a soldier of the Carignan regiment whose many wrongdoings and violent death transformed the adventure of one of les Filles du roi into a tragedy.

At the end of the month of August, 1668, the cooper Antoine Roy called Desjardins leaves Batiscan to go to Québec where several dozen Filles du roi are awaited. This ex-soldier of the Carignan regiment chose Marie Major. About thirty years old and orphaned of her mother and father, the young woman is originally from Saint-Thomas-de-Touques in Normandy. Her dowry is made up of goods valued at 300 livres.

There marriage is celebrated on September 11 next, in Québec, in the presence of several witnesses. The couple then takes the road for Batiscan where Antoine Roy had already obtained a first piece of land in 1667. Pierre, their only child, was born in the summer of 1669.

Even though two other pieces of land were later granted to him, this settler was not a model ground clearer. The census of 1681 specifies that only five arpents of the land that he possessed had been brought to use and that the total of his livestock was made up of a couple of horned beasts.

The Roys called Desjardins are poor. Their meagre possessions are soon mortgaged. In 1674, they borrowed from Michel Lecourt, a Montréaler and from several other people around them. In 1680, Lecourt tried in vain to recover his due. Two years later, the crown prosecutor intervenes in the litigation. Roy, who did not even deign to appear in court, was sentenced to repay the debt, the interest incurred and the court costs. Alarmed by this, the other creditors put forward their claims. Once again, the settler from Batiscan, who seems to have evaporated did not appear.

He lives for several months in the Montréal area when, in 1684, Michel Lecourt asks that justice be done to this defaulter who, he believes, hides the wages that he « earns daily from his trade as a cooper ». At the time when Lecourt prefers his charge, Antoine Roy called Desjardins is living at the home of Julien Talua called Vendamont. Relations between the two men are bad, also Talua takes it upon himself to confiscate his tenant's property. On May 17, Roy called Desjardins is sentenced to put up a bond or, if he wishes, to work for Lecourt. The following month, not having obeyed the court order, the settler from Batiscan is arrested. Freed on June 15, he is immediately denounced by Talua who claims to know that his lodger is going to flee.

On July 10, Antoine Roy called Desjardins is murdered by Talua who had found him in his wife's bed.

Marie Major will, in her turn, be prosecuted by the creditors who will obtain the seizure of all the property acquired during her marriage. She died in the Hôtel Dieu de Québec on December 8, 1689, leaving behind a son whose descendants live today.