Word: vecoeur
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...Yale University Press ($4). Letters from an American Farmer, published in England in 1782, is a book known to serious students of the period of American history just prior to and during the Revolution. Buried for nearly a century and a half in the cabinets of the Crèvecoeur family, unpublished manuscripts were discovered. Even for casual readers the book has interest and the sort of charm inherent in any narrative that sincerely, accurately and with reasonable adequacy portrays the life of a period, however restricted as to time, regardless of the limitation of its area of action. Moreover...
...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...