Creole Families of New Orleans (Paperback) - 5 Angebote vergleichen

Von Händler/Antiquariat, BuySomeBooks [52360437], Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 122 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: . . . CHAPTER V A ROMANCE OF THE BAYOU ST. JEAN OTHER settlers besides those of flesh and blood have given their name to the pleasant countryside of the Bayou St. Jean. Gayarre relates a romance, which the historians make a place for in their narratives, and which is still repeated by all guides. It deals with Charlotte, the beautiful daughter of the Duke of Brunswick, a paragon of virtue, beauty and talent, who was married to Alexis, the son of Peter the Great, after she had given her heart to the Chevalier dAubant, an officer of her fathers household. On the day of her marriage he received a passport and permission to leave the country. To continue, in Gayarr6s words: Whither he went no one knew, but in 1718 he arrived in Louisiana with the grade of Captain in the colonial troops. Shortly after this, he was stationed at New Orleans, where, beyond what was necessary in the discharge of his duties, he shunned the contact of his brother officers and lived in the utmost solitude. On the banks of the Bayou St. Jean, on the land known in our day as the Allard plantation, there was a small village of friendly Indians. With the consent of the Indians, dAubant formed there a rural retreat where he spent most of the time he could spare from his military avocations. Plain and rude was the soldiers dwelling, but it contained, as ornament, a full length and admirable portrait of a female, surpassingly beautiful, in the contemplation of which dAubant would frequently remain absorbed as in a trance. Near the figure represented stood a table on which lay a crown, resting, not on a cushion as usual, but on a heart which it crushed with its weight, and at which the lady gazed with intense melancholy. This painting attracted, of course, a good deal of. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, The Book Depository [54837791], London, United Kingdom.
Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: . CHAPTER V A ROMANCE OF THE BAYOU ST. JEAN OTHER settlers besides those of flesh and blood have given their name to the pleasant countryside of the Bayou St. Jean. Gayarre relates a romance, which the historians make a place for in their narratives, and which is still repeated by all guides. It deals with Charlotte, the beautiful daughter of the Duke of Brunswick, a paragon of virtue, beauty and talent, who was married to Alexis, the son of Peter the Great, after she had given her heart to the Chevalier d Aubant, an officer of her father s household. On the day of her marriage he received a passport and permission to leave the country. To continue, in Gayarr6 s words: Whither he went no one knew, but in 1718 he arrived in Louisiana with the grade of Captain in the colonial troops. Shortly after this, he was stationed at New Orleans, where, beyond what was necessary in the discharge of his duties, he shunned the contact of his brother officers and lived in the utmost solitude. On the banks of the Bayou St. Jean, on the land known in our day as the Allard plantation, there was a small village of friendly Indians. With the consent of the Indians, d Aubant formed there a rural retreat where he spent most of the time he could spare from his military avocations. Plain and rude was the soldier s dwelling, but it contained, as ornament, a full length and admirable portrait of a female, surpassingly beautiful, in the contemplation of which d Aubant would frequently remain absorbed as in a trance. Near the figure represented stood a table on which lay a crown, resting, not on a cushion as usual, but on a heart which it crushed with its weight, and at which the lady gazed with intense melancholy. This painting attracted, of course, a good deal of.

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Grace Elizabeth King, Books, History, Creole Families of New Orleans, Creole Families of New Orleans.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, BuySomeBooks, NV, Las Vegas, [RE:5].
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