French Gold is a tale of murder and its solving, of life in the
colonial village of Ste. Anne in the Illinois country, of buried
treasure and its eventual unearthing. It is of a keelboat voyage
from St. Louis to New Orleans and of the tender star-crossed love
shared by the French woman Julie Coussat and young Auguste Chouteau
along the way. Their journey is full of action - first an encounter
with river pirates, then savage Indians, and finally a brutal
attack upon Julie by supposed friends. This story tells of the
present-day rebuilding of a wall at historic Fort de Chartres and
how it came about. Fast paced, its action shifts back and forth and
back again between Springfield, Illinois in the 1980s, the French
Illinois country of 1764 and life on the river, and Paris in the
bloody days of the French Revolution. Local historians demanded
historical accuracy in the rebuilding of the wall at Fort de
Chartres. It seemed necessary for research to be done in France and
Spain. A professor of French language and literature was employed
to conduct that inquiry while he was in Europe on a sabbatical
leave. His findings in Seville and Paris led to the solution of an
ancient murder, to the recovery of a long buried treasure in gold
and silver from the bluffs along the Mississippi, and to the
account written long ago by the French woman, Julie Coussat, of her
time upon the river. Essentially, this a romantic tale of how a
strong-willed woman was caused to become the binding link between
past and present, and the means of our recreating a bit of the past
for our time and the future.
General
| Imprint: |
Authorhouse
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2007 |
| First published: |
September 2007 |
| Authors: |
David Kenney
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - With printed dust jacket / With dust jacket
|
| Pages: |
168 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4343-2703-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
1-4343-2703-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781434327031 |
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