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West Pubnico was founded in 1651 by a blue-blooded Frenchman named Sieur Philippe d'Entremont. Because he was the Baron de Pombcoup, his settlement was known first as Pombcoup, then (by the Indians) as Pobomcook, finally (by latter-day Canadians) as Pubnico. Today 675 Pubniconians are d'Entremonts. The others are Leblancs, d'Eons, Sureties and Amiraults, who have married into the family. The only four "outsiders" in the village: Fish Processor Charles Munro, who moved in from nearby Shelburne five years ago, his wife and two children...
Maxence d'Entremont was a big, jovial man with a big round head, no hair, a prominent brow, wide shoulders, a deep chest, long legs and almost no neck. When the doorbell rang in the morning he would shout: "The police!" When he led his daughter across the street he would say: "Let's keep together; it will cost them more to run over two persons." He could sketch brilliantly, but would not. He fought 17 duels...
Little Coquette, says Renée de Fontarce McCormick, is "really fictional." But Simone d'Entremont "is a little girl such as once I was. My life was like hers...
...though they loaded her with presents, Father & Mother d'Entremont had little time for Biquette. She was lonely...
Life with Mother. Much of Little Coquette is about Mme. d'Entremont...