After the Treaty of Paris (1763), a new generation of Acadians was born: the children of deportees. Many of them were in France from 1758 on. This generation did not know much about Acadia and grew up in refugee communities. They were torn between the nostalgic feelings of their elders and the new social and professional opportunities offered by France in the pre-revolutionary years, which was undergoing major political and economic changes. While certain “destinies” of women from the Deportation were discovered in the 19 th century, this article returns to the story of Anne Suzanne Richard, an Acadian tailor and laundress in Morlaix, Brittany, to account for a “margin of empowerment.” This concept refers to the shaping of a network of social connections in the pursuit of one’s own goal beyond the total control of community and/or state power. This article focuses on one of these margins by giving it a specifically feminine orientation: the epistolary relationship between Richard and a Breton aristocrat, the Countess Marie Jeanne Jégou du Laz. In the course of their exchanges between 1785 and 1789, female autonomy is revealed far from any homogeneous and reified conception of the historical category of “refugee woman.” Social relations are established around Anne Suzanne Richard to situate her in interactions with different social and professional milieus, from the domestic realm to the public sphere. In this way, the margin of empowerment opens up a new archival treatment of Acadian refugee women through the exploration of new network dynamics undertaken between historical agents, merchant communities, and independent actors after the Deportation.