Title: Count de Rouvray
First published: 2006
Description: LE Cte. DE Rouvray
Diary of an Officer in Miranda’s Expedition of 1806



What will the reader find in this work? A fully-detailed, true piece of history, but presented in fiction. The diary is a compilation, written in the English of that era, in the style of documents of that time, with its abbreviations and idioms that are not only out of date now, but even border on misuse of the language. I beg the reader not only to open his imagination, but also his creativity and not to fall prey to ignorance and the simplicity of hoping for a work written in perfect language, soul less, lacking the flavour of an era to which I was allowed to travel and which I am sharing with you. Rouvray’s diary is the diary of the expeditionaries of 1806, and his love story –Gaston Le Comte De Rouvray, undoubtedly needed to come out of the historical obscurity in which he has been for 200 years. This work attempts to highlight a being who walked the face of the earth with a dream of justice and liberty. This work speaks of Rouvray, who from Trinidad showed history that liberty has neither colour nor a specific origin, that liberty is a single language, a single code. 



Gilberto Jaimes-Correa
Translate by Denise Lewis Martínez
Subjects: Non-Fiction, History, Fiction
Places: Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago
People: Gaston Rouvray comte de
Time periods: Miranda's Expedition, 1806
LC classification: PR9333.9.J35 C68 2006