Silence of stone : a novel of Marguerite de Roberval / Annamarie Beckel.
Silence of stone : a novel of Marguerite de Roberval / Annamarie Beckel.
By
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Beckel, Annamarie L., 1951-
Publication Date
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2008
Publication Information
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St. John's, N.L. : Breakwater Books Limited,
Physical Description
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208 p.
Geographic Term
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
Genre
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Historical fiction.
Summary
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Recounts the story of Marguerite de Roberval, a young French noblewoman. During a colonising expedition to New France in 1542, she falls in love with a soldier. Jean-FranƯcois de Roberval, commander of the expedition and Marguerite's guardian, is so outraged at the disgrace she has brought upon the name Roberval that he abandons her, her lover, and a servant on the Isle of Demons, a small island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Marguerite survives, spending nearly a year entirely alone. More than two years after her abandonment, she returns to France, rescued from the island by a Breton fishing ship.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781550812435
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