Word: auclairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much as an Indian fight and even the deeds of pioneering derring do are all messengered action. Explorers Daniel du Lhut, Robert Cavelier de la Salle are mentioned, but they are only names. Heroine of this quiet tale of a quiet time is a little girl, Cécile Auclair, and nothing happens to her except that she and her apothecary father do not return to France after...
...Papa Auclair, family apothecary to the Frontenacs in France, followed his patron to the New World when Frontenac was made Governor General of New France. In Quebec he lived as far as possible the quiet bourgeois life he had known at home. A philosopher, Papa Auclair believed in good manners, good cooking; well-behaved Cécile adored him, cooked beautifully. She liked Quebec and its people, made friends with many of them: courtly and disgruntled old Frontenac; grim old Bishop Laval; cross-eyed Blinker, ex-torturer from the King's prison at Rouen; Pierre Charron, coureur de bois...