When the girls of the French orphanage visit the dog cemetery, Brigitte gets left behind and has an adventure with a woman whose husband is a pretender to the French throne.
The twelve orphelines come to live in their new orphanage, an old castle, where with thirty boy orphans they become over-imaginative princesses and knights.
Nine stories of industrious French Canadians including one about a father who taught his children to answer questions for themselves and another about the rivalry between the blue-sashed Montreal Le Blancs and the red-sashed Quebec Le Blancs.
