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Title: Acadian Reminiscences
The True Story of Evangeline

Author: Felix Voorhies

Release Date: February 10, 2010 [eBook #31245]

Language: English

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Acadian Reminiscences

The True Story of Evangeline

by

JUDGE FELIX VOORHIES

Introduction by Felix Birney Voorhies

Price $2.00

E. P. Rivas, Publisher
New Orleans, Louisiana

Copyright, 1907,
by Felix Voorhies

[Illustration: _A Modern Conception of Evangeline_
Posed by Rev. A. T. Kempton]

Table of Contents

Page

List of Illustrations 7

Introduction 9

I. Reminiscences 13

II. Acadian Manners and Customs 23

III. Rumors of War 35

IV. Threatening Clouds 43

V. Acadian Exiles 53

VI. A Night of Terror 61

VII. Generous Friends 75

VIII. Evangeline 79

IX. Louisiana 91

List of Illustrations

_Frontispiece_ A Modern Conception of Evangeline

Page

Catholic Church Exterior 76

Evangeline 81

Evangeline Oak 86

Interior of Church 104