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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
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