Word: montcalm
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...Death Comes for the Archbishop, Shadows on the Rock is concerned with the American scene, colonial times. But Authoress Cather has moved from Spanish Southwest to French Northeast: the rock her story shadows is Quebec, at the turn of 1700. If you expect to encounter shades of Wolfe and Montcalm, of the storming of the Plains of Abraham, you will be disappointed; the story does not move that far (Quebec fell in 1759). There is not so much as an Indian fight and even the deeds of pioneering derring do are all messengered action. Explorers Daniel du Lhut, Robert Cavelier...
Another indication that the French have not forgotten Canada was once theirs, is to be seen in the French Colonial Exposition at Paris. There, in the Permanent Museum of French colonies, is a Canadian display, showing many mementos of the Marquis de Montcalm, the general who lost the province...
...time famed Speaker of the House, was unable to vote last week for the first time since 1860 when he cast his ballot for Abraham Lincoln. In Brooklyn three other Lincoln voters (one of them blind) went to the polls, voted for modification of the Volstead Act. ([ Montcalm County, Mich., has its heroine-Mrs. Ileea M. Henkel, onetime schoolteacher, wife of the former sheriff who was fatally wounded while arresting a drunk. She was appointed to serve her husband's unexpired term and conducted a vigorous war on the liquor traffic. Last week she was elected to succeed herself...
...figures of Clive and Hastings, Wolfe, and Montcalm stand out in the story of French and English colonial expansion in the eighteenth century. It was a period when Europe had enough energy to overflow into little geographical odds and ends like India and America. Professor Lord will speak on this expansion in the History I lecture which comes at 9 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall and to hear it will be for me but a small gesture of filial respect for those intrepid vagabonds...
...Author. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur, born in Caen, France, in 1735, served under Montcalm, and turned his back on Canada after the fall of Quebec. Surveyor, mapmaker, soldier, negotiator with the Indians, he settled down as a farmer, after his marriage, in the province of New York. He "suffered much for his attachment to his Majesty's government and friends," was driven from his farm and became a refugee, protected with others of his kind by Clinton's army, until 1870, when he returned to France. After the war France sent him to America as consul...