In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, France experienced a period of immigration from Ireland, related to the defeat of the Jacobite supporters of James II. The “Flight of the Wild Geese”, as it became known in Ireland, commenced in 1691 and continued into the first half of the 1700s. One member of this diaspora, Olive Trant, daughter of a prominent Irish Jacobite Sir Patrick Trant, led a more unusual life than most such migrants. The majority were male and soldiers, of various social statuses, who were exiled with the defeated Jacobite army or who emigrated later to join the Irish Regiments formed from the remnants of the army. Olive Trant migrated to Paris as a child, before the Jacobite defeat, to be educated in a catholic convent. She later engaged in activities in support of a Jacobite invasion of Britain in 1715, “the Fifteen”. Disillusioned with the Jacobites, she then became extremely wealthy through speculation on the Mississippi Bubble and married a French prince.