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Bride of New France

Summary: From the moment she arrives in Ville-Marie (Montreal) Laure Beausejour is expected to marry and produce children with a brutish French soldier who himself can barely survive the harsh conditions of his forest cabin. But through her clandestine relationship with an allied Iroquois, she finds a sense of the possibilities in this New World. What happens to a woman who attempts to make her own life choices in such authoritative times?

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  • ISBN: 9780143173397 (trade pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780143173380 (trade pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: xii, 294 p. ; 23 cm.
    print
  • Publisher: Toronto : Penguin Canada, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Novel.
Subject: Filles du roi -- Fiction
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) -- Fiction
Genre: Canadian fiction.
First novel.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 12 of 13 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Prince Rupert Library Desr (Text) 33294001795632 Adult Fiction - Second Floor Volume hold Available -

Summary: From the moment she arrives in Ville-Marie (Montreal) Laure Beausejour is expected to marry and produce children with a brutish French soldier who himself can barely survive the harsh conditions of his forest cabin. But through her clandestine relationship with an allied Iroquois, she finds a sense of the possibilities in this New World. What happens to a woman who attempts to make her own life choices in such authoritative times?

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