Alice Of Old Vincennes Etc A Tale

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Alice Of Old Vincennes Etc A Tale

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Author : Maurice THOMPSON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900

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Alice Of Old Vincennes

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Author : Maurice Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1900-01-01

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Up to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as 1825, there stood, in what is now the beautiful little city of Vincennes on the Wabash, the decaying remnant of an old and curiously gnarled cherry tree, known as the Roussillon tree, le cerisier de Monsieur Roussillon, as the French inhabitants called it, which as long as it lived bore fruit remarkable for richness of flavor and peculiar dark ruby depth of color. The exact spot where this noble old seedling from la belle France flourished, declined, and died cannot be certainly pointed out; for in the rapid and happy growth of Vincennes many land-marks once notable, among them le cerisier de Monsieur Roussillon, have been destroyed and the spots where they stood, once familiar to every eye in old Vincennes, are now lost in the pleasant confusion of the new town. The security of certain land titles may have largely depended upon the disappearance of old, fixed objects here and there. Early records were loosely kept, indeed, scarcely kept at all; many were destroyed by designing land speculators, while those most carefully preserved often failed to give even a shadowy trace of the actual boundaries of the estates held thereby; so that the position of a house or tree not infrequently settled an important question of property rights left open by a primitive deed. At all events the Roussillon cherry tree disappeared long ago, nobody living knows how, and with it also vanished, quite as mysteriously, all traces of the once important Roussillon estate. Not a record of the name even can be found, it is said, in church or county books. The old, twisted, gum-embossed cherry tree survived every other distinguishing feature of what was once the most picturesque and romantic place in Vincennes. Just north of it stood, in the early French days, a low, rambling cabin surrounded by rude verandas overgrown with grapevines. This was the Roussillon place, the most pretentious home in all the Wabash country. Its owner was Gaspard Roussillon, a successful trader with the Indians. He was rich, for the time and the place, influential to a degree, a man of some education, who had brought with him to the wilderness a bundle of books and a taste for reading. From faded letters and dimly remembered talk of those who once clung fondly to the legends and traditions of old Vincennes, it is drawn that the Roussillon cherry tree stood not very far away from the present site of the Catholic church, on a slight swell of ground overlooking a wide marshy flat and the silver current of the Wabash. If the tree grew there, then there too stood the Roussillon house with its cosy log rooms, its clay-daubed chimneys and its grapevine-mantled verandas, while some distance away and nearer the river the rude fort with its huddled officers' quarters seemed to fling out over the wild landscape, through its squinting and lopsided port-holes, a gaze of stubborn defiance. Not far off was the little log church, where one good Father Beret, or as named by the Indians, who all loved him, Father Blackrobe, performed the services of his sacred calling; and scattered all around were the cabins of traders, soldiers and woodsmen forming a queer little town, the like of which cannot now be seen anywhere on the earth. It is not known just when Vincennes was first founded; but most historians make the probable date very early in the eighteenth century, somewhere between 1710 and 1730. In 1810 the Roussillon cherry tree was thought by a distinguished botanical letter-writer to be at least fifty years old, which would make the date of its planting about 1760.

Carleton S Condensed Classical Dictionary

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Author : George Washington Carleton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882

Carleton S Condensed Classical Dictionary written by George Washington Carleton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Mythology categories.

St Elmo

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Author : Augusta Jane Evans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

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General Catalogue Of Printed Books

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Author : British museum. Dept. of printed books
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931

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The Conference On Training For Foreign Service

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Author : Anna Tolman Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917

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Canadian Bookseller And Library Journal

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

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Bulletin

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1918

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Reorganization Of English In Secondary Schools

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Author : Arthur Coleman Monahan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917

Reorganization Of English In Secondary Schools written by Arthur Coleman Monahan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with Child labor categories.

General Catalogue Of Printed Books

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Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964

General Catalogue Of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with English imprints categories.