Title: Deeper the Heritage
Description: Courville-Boissarts #2: ''Deeper the Heritage'' by Muriel Elwood (Published in 1947)
This Colorful and romantic novel depicts life in montreal and Eastern Canada in the early 1700's, not only a dramatic and turbulant love story, but a fine re-creation of what life was like in Canada, while it was still New France!
Courville-Boissarts #1: ''Heritage of the River'' by Muriel Elwood (Published in 1945)
a) Marguerite Boissart was a member of a strict family in an old American frontier town. While still in her teens she had an affair with an exiled French dandy. As a result she was driven from her home and moved in with her married sister in a lonely outpost deep in the unconquered Forest. There she witnessed the horror of an Indian massacre that wiped out the whole village. Young and beautiful, she was captured by the savages and taken to a barbaric Indian village to be tortured.
b) Marguerite's exciting story is told against the background of the robust young French colony on the St. Lawrence River. It was a country of exiled aristocrats and their elegant women; of drinking, swaggering coureurs de bios from the trackless forests; of hard bitten settlers pitting their strength against the elements, be-deviled by the whims of a debauched King. Heritage of the River is a swift, colorful story that you will long remember.
Courville-Boissarts #3: ''Web of Destiny by'' Muriel Elwood (Published in 1952)
a) Nancy Walker, an American girl, was saved from an Indian massacre by her cousin Philippe, a French soldier. He took her to Montreal. Marie de Chambault, an unscrupulous older woman madly in love with Philippe and jealous of Nancy's youth, schemed to have the young girl put away in a convent. Rather than enter a life for which she had no vocation, Nancy persuaded Andre, another cousin to take her back to Albany.
b) Only a reckless young man hopelessly in love would have agreed to so rash a plan. Alone the two of them travelled for days through hostile country in the dead of winter. They were cold, hungry, almost at the end of their endurance when the Indians struck...
Subjects: Fiction, History, French Canadian Fiction, Historical Canadian History, Historical Fiction, Historical romance, 18th century, Canada, Book Club edition, New France, Queen Anne's War
Places: Canada, Quebec, Montreal, St. Lawrence River, Rio de Jeiro
People: Claude De Ramezay
Time periods: November 1710 (Montreal) to 1763 (New France)