Le FORUM - University of Maine
Le FORUM - University of Maine
Le FORUM - University of Maine
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<strong>Le</strong> Forum<br />
This portrayal <strong>of</strong> early<br />
settlement in the St-Lawrence<br />
River valley wilderness<br />
in the mid-1600’s represents<br />
the broad reality <strong>of</strong> the French<br />
immigrant settlers whose lives<br />
unfolded against the background<br />
<strong>of</strong> dramatic historical events<br />
and unusual natural phenomena.<br />
Based on the true story <strong>of</strong><br />
Three decades <strong>of</strong> colonial<br />
peace and prosperity follow the<br />
Treaty <strong>of</strong> Utrecht. Bastien’s three<br />
succeeding generations migrate<br />
to settle south and west along<br />
the Saint Lawrence River, and<br />
farther south into the Illinois<br />
and Louisiana territories. The<br />
abandoned Acadiens manage<br />
to retain their neutral status.<br />
France constructs the great fortress<br />
<strong>of</strong> Louisbourg to guard its<br />
access to the Saint Lawrence<br />
River. Britain develops its port in<br />
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a peasant couple who left feudal<br />
France at a time when sea travel<br />
was perilous, a dense virgin forest<br />
filled with unknown dangers<br />
covered Northeastern America,<br />
and large land grants went to<br />
those who had the courage and<br />
tenacity to clear and till the soil.<br />
Sébastien and Marguerite<br />
struggle to build a comfortable<br />
life for themselves and their<br />
children. Their pioneering experiences<br />
gradually transform<br />
them from indentured laborer and<br />
King’s Daughter into successful<br />
and respected québécois settlers.<br />
Publication Date: 2000<br />
Quality Trade Paperback:<br />
6 x 9, 284 pages, maps<br />
and sketches<br />
ISBN-13:<br />
978-0-9679112-3-6<br />
LCCN: 00-091765<br />
Price: $19.95 U.S.<br />
Halifax and increases its military<br />
presence in Nova Scotia.<br />
Bastien’s adult grandchildren<br />
marry and establish<br />
their own homes and families.<br />
French Canadians continue to<br />
explore and extend their fur<br />
trade. Growth <strong>of</strong> the English<br />
provincial population greatly<br />
outpaces that <strong>of</strong> the French;<br />
their traders and settlers begin<br />
to migrate west across the<br />
Alleghenies. Conflict flares<br />
up along the frontiers over<br />
territorial claims. The Acadiens<br />
are forcibly scattered<br />
throughout the English provinces.<br />
British and French armed<br />
forces arrive in North America.<br />
Publication Date: 2006<br />
Quality Trade Paperback 6 x<br />
9, 336 pages<br />
ISBN-13: 978-0-9679112-0-5<br />
ISBN-10: 0-9679112-0-6<br />
LC Control Number:<br />
2006909250<br />
Price: $19.95 U.S<br />
ARTENAY PRESS<br />
presents a series <strong>of</strong> historical novels depicting<br />
the French presence in North America<br />
from the mid-1600s through 1763<br />
Bastien and Marguerite’s<br />
first Canadian-born descendants<br />
face trials and challenges that<br />
are quite different from those<br />
experienced by their parents.<br />
This family saga continues to<br />
unfold as the immigrant couple’s<br />
sons and daughters marry<br />
and establish their own homes<br />
and families. As militiamen<br />
and voyageurs, their sons and<br />
sons-in-law travel thousands<br />
<strong>of</strong> miles inland by way <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Bastien and Marguerite’s<br />
third and fourth generations struggle<br />
through the final stages <strong>of</strong> imperial<br />
conflict between France and<br />
Great Britain in North America.<br />
William Pitt stalemates French<br />
military power in Europe by<br />
western rivers and Great Lakes.<br />
During this period <strong>of</strong> rapid<br />
exploration and extension <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Canadian frontiers, a marked increase<br />
in fur exports brings great<br />
wealth to France. There develops<br />
a struggle for control over the<br />
western territories, Hudson Bay<br />
trading posts, the Newfoundland<br />
and Acadian fisheries, pitting<br />
English colonies and the five<br />
Iroquois nations against Nouvelle<br />
France, Acadia, and their native<br />
allies. Meanwhile, British King<br />
William III <strong>of</strong> Orange and French<br />
King Louis XIV vie for political,<br />
religious, and military dominance<br />
in Europe and North America.<br />
Publication Date: 2002<br />
Quality Trade Paperback:<br />
6 x 9, 320 pages<br />
ISBN: 0-9679112-4-9<br />
Library <strong>of</strong> Congress<br />
Control Number:<br />
2002094340<br />
Price: $19.95 U.S.<br />
subsidizing Frederic the Great’s<br />
forces on the continent and blockading<br />
French ports. This strategy<br />
prevents France from shipping<br />
reinforcements and provisions to<br />
its colonies, and clears the way<br />
for England’s powerful navy to<br />
project and concentrate British<br />
military forces against French<br />
overseas colonies in the Americas,<br />
the Caribbean, Africa, and India.<br />
Publication Date: 2009<br />
Quality Trade Paperback<br />
6 x 9, 230 pages<br />
ISBN-13:<br />
978-0-9679112-1-2<br />
LC Control Number:<br />
2009912034<br />
Price: $19.95 U.S<br />
Author: Doris Provencher Faucher<br />
Published and distributed by:<br />
ARTENAY PRESS<br />
P.O. Box 1664<br />
Biddeford ME 04005<br />
Tel:(207)282-2123 - artenayp@maine.rr.com
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