The Brides Of La Baleine
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The Brides Of La Baleine
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Author : Ladnier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-03-31
The Brides Of La Baleine written by Ladnier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-31 with categories.
The story of 88 young girls and women who volunteered to leave France in 1720 and go to the Colony of Louisiana as brides for the soldiers and settlers who lived there.
La Chasse A La Baleine
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Author : Arthur Graves Credland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
La Chasse A La Baleine written by Arthur Graves Credland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with categories.
Wilma La Baleine
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Author : Leslie Coleman
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Wilma La Baleine written by Leslie Coleman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
French Immigrants And Pioneers In The Making Of America
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Author : Marie-Pierre Le Hir
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-03-08
French Immigrants And Pioneers In The Making Of America written by Marie-Pierre Le Hir and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-08 with History categories.
Americans have long had a rich if complicated relationship with France. They adore all things French, especially food and fashion. They visit the country and learn the language. Historically, Americans have also been quick to blame France at certain times of international crisis, and find fault with their handling of domestic issues. Despite ups and downs, the friendship between the countries remains very strong. The author explains the strength of Franco-American relations lies in the diplomatic ties that extend back to the founding of the United States, but more importantly, in the French DNA that is imprinted on American culture. The French were the first Europeans to settle the regions now known as Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas--and Frenchman remained in Louisiana after the land was purchased by the United States. This book explores the effects that France has had on American culture, and why modern Americans of French descent are so fascinated by their ancestry.
Mutinous Women
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Author : Joan DeJean
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-04-19
Mutinous Women written by Joan DeJean and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi Valley In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the Mississippi. It was loaded with urgently needed goods for the fledgling French colony, but its principal commodity was a new kind of export: women. Falsely accused of sex crimes, these women were prisoners, shackled in the ship’s hold. Of the 132 women who were sent this way, only 62 survived. But these women carved out a place for themselves in the colonies that would have been impossible in France, making advantageous marriages and accumulating property. Many were instrumental in the building of New Orleans and in settling Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, and Mississippi. Drawing on an impressive range of sources to restore the voices of these women to the historical record, Mutinous Women introduces us to the Gulf South’s Founding Mothers.
Pelican Girls
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Author : Julia Malye
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2024-03-05
Pelican Girls written by Julia Malye and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-05 with Fiction categories.
'Stunning, moving, and remarkable' Nguyen Phan Que Mai, internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing and Dust Child 'A celebration of complicity and love among women' Pilar Quintana, shortlisted for the National Book Award, author of The Bitch and Abyss 'I haven't been this swept away by a piece of historical fiction since Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet' Jess Walter, bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins Paris, 1720. The Hospice of La Salpêtrière is overrun with 'difficult' women. Halfway around the world, on the American frontier, French settlers are in want of wives. At the asylum, a list is drawn up: eighty-eight women of childbearing age to be shipped to New Orleans. Among them are Charlotte, Geneviève and Pétronille - a sharp-tongued orphan, an accused abortionist and a rumoured madwoman. They make the voyage over the ocean, knowing nothing of the harsh and extraordinary lives that await them, or how they will come to love and betray each other time and again in this wild and beautiful land. Bold, thrilling and startling intimate, PELICAN GIRLS is a powerful vision of female friendship, identity and desire, and the choices women make in their unshakeable will to survive. For readers of Barbara Kingsolver, Lauren Groff and The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li. 'A tale of female friendship unlike any I've come across before, Julia Malye's inspired-by-a-true-story Pelican Girls is as incredible a feat of research as it is a daring work of fiction' Elle's Best (and Most Anticipated) Fiction Books of 2024
Brides From Bridewell
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Author : Walter Hart Blumenthal
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 1998-10-15
Brides From Bridewell written by Walter Hart Blumenthal and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-10-15 with Social Science categories.
Brides from Bridewell is the story of the female felons from England and France who were sent to Colonial America to serve their prison sentences. It sets forth the harsh, often inhuman, penal conditions then prevailing in those lands, and the fact that these thousands of feminine felons constituted one of the primary marital elements in the mothering of early America. Many women whose offenses were minor were deported. Others were confessed criminals. The facts constitute one of the neglected (or hidden) retrospects to the American past. Descent from the Mayflower lineage is stressed by genealogists; but the fact is forgotten that many unknowing present-day Americans of colonial descent derive their American beginnings from female prisoners sent against their will. Says the author: "Many of the transported felons after their servitude had expired, became reputable dwellers in the new environment; and if not they, then their offspring. No stigma attaches to their descendants. But the tale needs telling."
Le Ragazze Della Baleine
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Author : Julia Malye
language : it
Publisher: Edizioni Mondadori
Release Date : 2024-01-25
Le Ragazze Della Baleine written by Julia Malye and has been published by Edizioni Mondadori this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-25 with Fiction categories.
Parigi, 1720. La superiora dell'ospedale della Salpêtrière, Marguerite Pancatelin, è tormentata dai dubbi: il veliero La Baleine salperà di lì a breve per la Louisiana e tocca a lei il difficile compito di selezionare novanta giovani donne in età fertile da dare in spose ai coloni francesi che abitano i territori occupati. Marguerite è consapevole che ad attendere queste ragazze c'è una terra dura e inospitale e che nessuna farà mai ritorno in patria. Nonostante sia una struttura in cui le pazienti sono spesso etichettate come pazze o criminali, la Salpêtrière ospita per lo più semplici orfane o ragazze stravaganti che hanno infranto le regole sociali. Tra loro ci sono Geneviève, ribelle e affascinante, rinchiusa nella Maison de Correction dell'istituto perché ha aiutato diverse ragazze ad abortire; Pétronille, una voglia bianca sul viso, figlia di una famiglia aristocratica in rovina che l'ha allontanata per i suoi comportamenti eccentrici; e Charlotte, un'orfana di soli dodici anni che non ha mai conosciuto il mondo fuori dalla Salpêtrière. Nessuna di loro sa cosa l'attende al di là dell'oceano, nessuna potrà decidere del proprio destino, ma la paura dell'ignoto trasformerà il viaggio sulla Baleine, lungo e pieno di pericoli, in un'occasione per costruire un legame profondo e un'incrollabile volontà di sopravvivere. Per Geneviève, Pétronille e Charlotte l'arrivo in Louisiana significherà affrontare la durezza e la violenza di un matrimonio imposto, il confronto con il desiderio proibito, la ricerca disperata di un figlio che non arriva, e l'incontro con chi ha abitato questi luoghi per secoli e vede ora la propria esistenza in pericolo. Un romanzo storico di grande suggestione, con tre indimenticabili eroine che nel cuore di una terra spietata restano animate da una straordinaria sete di amore e di vita.
New Orleans Vampires
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Author : Marita Woywod Crandle
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2008-10-20
New Orleans Vampires written by Marita Woywod Crandle and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-20 with History categories.
A New Orleans historian and vampire expert uncovers the historic origins of the Southern city’s vampire legends from colonial days to the Great Depression. New Orleans has a reputation as a home for creatures of the night. Popular books, movies and television shows have cemented the city's connection to vampires in the public imagination. But the stories of the Crescent City’s undead residents go much deeper than the tales of Sookie Stackhouse and The Vampire Lestat. In New Orleans Vampires, author Marita Woywod Crandle investigates the most haunting tales of vampirism in New Orleans history. In the early days of Louisiana's colonization, rumors swirled about the fate of the Casket Girls, a group of mysterious maidens traveling to the New World from France with peculiar casket-shaped boxes. The charismatic Comte St. Germain moved to the French Quarter in the early 1900s, eerily resembling a European aristocrat of one hundred years prior bearing the same name. In the 1930s, the Carter brothers terrorized the town with their desire to feed on living human blood. Strange but true tales mix with immortal legends in this fascinating volume.
Journal Des Demoiselles
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Author :
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1848
Journal Des Demoiselles written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1848 with categories.