Word: atala
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Lamar was born in Oxford, Miss., to Lucius and Atala Lamar. He grew up in Washington, D.C., where his father was employed by the government...
Lamar is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Marilyn Coldwell of Southborough and Dr. Judy Lamar of Topsfield, Mass., and by his sister, Mrs. Atala Lessard of Falmouth Fireside, Maine. Lamar also had two granddaughters and several nephews and nieces...
...America the tourist wandered through Philadelphia, then journeyed down the Ohio River across the wilderness and back through the Allegheny Mountains. Encounters with Indian maidens and frontier moonlight enlivened his novels René and Atala and gave many Europeans new notions of the New World. The fantastic journey ended one night in a backwoods millhouse, where the fire illuminated an old newspaper headline: FLIGHT OF THE KING. Chateaubriand raced to Europe to join the army of the émigré princes. But the cause was hopeless, and he fled in exile to England. There he will languish until Volume...
...second-floor bedroom of Washington's Blair House, Léon Blum put on his blue & white striped pajamas, settled down to read François René de Chateaubriand's Atala, American Indian romance told of the days when "France possessed . . . a vast empire stretching from Labrador to Florida, from the shores of the Atlantic to the remotest lakes of upper Canada." Now France's imperial glory was gone, and her aging but active special emissary, only ten months out of a Nazi prison, had come to the shores of the former colony to plead...