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Download or read book Genevieve written by Mary Anne Van Horne and published by . This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genevieve, the lovely orphaned daughter of a Parisian artist's model and a deposed Balkan prince, is befriended by a Madam from Monmartre. She is shadowed by a mysterious man in gray who eventually forgets his duty as he falls under the enchanting girl's spell.Genevieve, threatened by enemies from her past, flees to London under the protection of Albert, Prince of Wales. There she is reunited with the Madam's son, Francois, who has been her lifelong love. Together they share both the joys and griefs of their entwined destinies.Through the aid of the great Baron Richmond, Francois's father-in-law, Genevieve and Francois embark on a dangerous journey to the once lovely but now wartorn Cimaria. It is in the highlands of Genevieve's ancient homeland that the two lovers must face the ghosts from their past that threaten to separate them forever.

Download or read book American Diaries written by William Matthews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."

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Download or read book The Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec written by Colin MacMillan Coates and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries French settlers radically transformed the landscape of the St Lawrence river, creating strong local communities that became the crucibles of a New World nationalism. Drawing on the insights and methods of cultural history, Colin Coates examines the seigneuries of Batiscan and Sainte-Anne de la Pérade, recreating the social relations between individuals and ethnic groups that inhabited the area. He shows that successive waves of immigrants sought to appropriate the landscape of the New World and replace it with a physical and cultural reality much closer to their European roots and traditions. French settlers distanced the indigenous people and flora and fauna to create a landscape that by the mid-eighteenth century had become recognisably European. British industrialists and landowners attempted similar appropriations with far less durable results and the area remained a heartland of French-Canadian life, with a sense of cohesive community. This community spirit, rooted in agrarian landscape, was channelled into the developing sense of colonial nationalism of the 1820s and 1830s. Drawing on maps by explorers and surveyors, correspondence documenting the conflict between a backwoods priest and his parishioners, a gentlewoman's sketchbook, and the documents of a bitter court case between a seigneur's wife and a local priest, Coates illuminates the development of the region and the social, cultural, and economic ties and tensions within it, providing insights into the often hidden values of a rural community. Colin M. Coates is director of the Centre of Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

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