Word: toussaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MADAME TOUSSAINT'S WEDDING DAY- Thad St. Martin-Little, Brown...
...Toussaint was a buxom Cajun widow with seven children, and well along in years (she was 28). She had not thought seriously of marrying again, but when a fine young fellow like Jean asked her, she said yes. On her wedding day, though it went much against the grain, she thought it more fitting not to go out with the fishing fleet but to sit at home in idle dignity. Mme Toussaint soon found the hours dragging, found herself worrying about the new sleeping arrangements. The little cabin was already crowded: her daughter, almost grownup, slept in the same room...
Till after noon she kept her hardly-held dignity. Then, at the news that shrimp were running, that prices had gone up, that the fleet was shorthanded, Mme Toussaint cast decorum to the winds, bundled her brood into the boat, the Six Little Brothers, set off to lend her efficient aid. It was late that night before the weary fishermen returned, to watch Mme Toussaint and Jean jump over the broomstick together. And as the overworked engine of the Six Little Brothers had broken down, the bride and groom never...
...BLACK CONSUL - Anatolu Vinogradov- Viking ($2.75). In this historical novel of Haiti and the French Revolution by a Soviet author, Toussaint l'Ouverture. Robespierre, Marat, Lafayette and other great men of the epoch take the stage. Vinogradov's method of fictionalizing history is to incorporate verbatim reports taken from original sources into his stories. Thus the unsuspecting reader is treated to actual state papers, speeches, documents. Vinogradov may have been the first historical novelist to make extensive use of this method, but Guy Endore. U. S. novelist, employed the same technique in Babouk, his novel of a West...
...racial make-up of the country. The French made the original mistake in bringing prisoners of war to work the land. These were no black slaves, but the sons of native kings and warriors who were accustomed to hold slaves themselves. France discovered this when the ragged troops of Toussaint L'Ouverture drove the army of the great Napoleon to the sea, and later repulsed the forces that England sent against them. In the Haitians is the fierce, arrogant spirit of ancestors used to independence and conquest...