Felix Voorhies and, in Pouponne et Balthazar, Sidonie de la Houssaye were among the authors who adapted it to local settings.
Felix Voorhies and, in Pouponne et Balthazar, Sidonie de la Houssaye were among the authors who adapted it to local settings. The title character's trip down the Mississippi River is something that did not happen during the event described, but by the end of the nineteenth century, many readers regarded this story as a true historical account. It reunites the central characters during an epidemic in Philadelphia after opening with a description of "Le Grand Dérangement" interrupting the wedding of Miss Bellefontaine. Gabriel Lajeunesse and the title character are first separated during the expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia in, for 10 points, what Henry Wadsworth Longfellow epic, one of the few English poems in dactylic hexamater?
Felix Voorhies and, in Pouponne et Balthazar, Sidonie de la Houssaye were among the authors who adapted it to local settings.
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