A passion for survival
Subtitle: the true story of Marie Anne and Louis Payzant in eighteenth-century Nova Scotia
By: Linda G. Layton.
Publisher: Nimbus Publishng Ltd.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Halifax, Nova Scotia, CANADA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Payzant, Marie Anne, ca. 1711-1796.; Payzant, Louis, ca. 1695-1756.; Huguenots -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.; Huguenots -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 18th century.; Anglo-French War, 1755-1763 -- Biography.; Anglo-French War, 1755-1763 -- Prisoners and prisons.; Prisoners of war -- Québec (Province) -- Québec -- History -- 18th century.; Nova Scotia -- History -- 1713-1763.; Nova Scotia -- History -- 1713-1775 -- Biography.; Canada -- History -- Seven Years' War, 1755-1763 -- Prisoners and prisons.; Canada -- History -- 1713-1763 (New France) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
First sentence: The True Story of Marie Anne and Louis Payzant:  A Preview

I picture my fourth great-grandmother as a carefree nine year old in 1720, running up one of the rolling, green hills surrounding her village of Conde-sur-Noireau in Normandy, France.
Description: The incredible lives of Marie Anne and Louis Payzant have formed the stuff of legends and sparked the literary imagination of a number of writers, Margaret Atwood among them.

Fleeing religious persecution in eighteenth-century France, Huguenots Marie Anne and Louis abandoned the haven of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands, for a new life in Nova Scotia, only to be engulfed by the New World's own troubles:  colonial hardship, French-English warfare, and threats from local natives.  A Passion for Survival is the true account of Louis's tragic death and Marie Anne's remarkable fortitude -- a story so extraordinary, it reads like fiction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-140) and index.
Table of contents: label: Preface
pagenum: vii; label: A Preview
pagenum: xv; label: 1
title: Louis in Caen (ca. 1695-1739)
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Jersey, Island of Refuge (1739-1753)
pagenum: 22; label: 3
title: Lunenburg, a New Beginning (1753-1756)
pagenum: 38; label: 4
title: Island Attack (1756)
pagenum: 49; label: 5
title: Maliseet Trek (1756)
pagenum: 58; label: 6
title: Quebec Captivity (1756-1760)
pagenum: 67; label: 7
title: Falmouth, Another Beginning (1761-1796)
pagenum: 84; label: Epilogue
pagenum: 95; label: Endnotes
pagenum: 120; label: Image Sources
pagenum: 134; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 135