Title: A passion for survival
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.
Subjects: Anglo-French War, 1755-1763, Biography, Canada Seven Years' War, 1755-1763, History, Huguenots, Prisoners and prisons, Prisoners of war, Nova scotia, history, Nova scotia, biography, Seven years' war, 1756-1763, Canada, history, to 1763 (new france), Biographies, Histoire, Prisonniers et prisons
Places: Canada, Nova Scotia, Québec, Québec (Province)
People: Louis Payzant (ca. 1695-1756), Marie Anne Payzant (ca. 1711-1796)
Time periods: 1713-1763, 1713-1763 (New France), 1713-1775, 18th century, Seven Years' War, 1755-1763