Word: coureur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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; little Jacques, accidental son of a sleazy, sailor-loving woman; Father Hector, dilettante by nature, missionary by vocation. Once a year the boats from France came in, bringing letters and supplies from home; missionaries and trappers came from the wilderness with tall and terrible tales, but in Quebec...
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