One of this author's works begins with the steamship the Votaress launching for Louisville, and in another one of this author's works, General Brodnax obtains a command for his nephew Adolphe Irby, who is put in charge of the titular group of guns cast by his other nephew. In addition to Gideon's Band and Kincaid's Battery, he wrote a work in which the title character endu
One of this author's works begins with the steamship the Votaress launching for Louisville, and in another one of this author's works, General Brodnax obtains a command for his nephew Adolphe Irby, who is put in charge of the titular group of guns cast by his other nephew. In addition to Gideon's Band and Kincaid's Battery, he wrote a work in which the title character endures accusations of witchcraft in order to protect the secrecy of the leprosy of his brother Jacques and another work in which Ursin Lemaitre gives up piracy for banking in order to marry Olive, whose mother swears that she is the daughter of a white woman in order to legalize the marriage. In one of his novels, the protagonist commits suicide when he is rejected by Palmyre, a freed slave who attempts to use voodoo to get revenge on his uncle Agricola Fusilier. FTP, name this author who included Jean-ah Poquelin and Madame Delphine in his collection Old Creole Days and penned the novel The Grandissimes.
One of this author's works begins with the steamship the Votaress launching for Louisville, and in another one of this author's works, General Brodnax obtains a command for his nephew Adolphe Irby, who is put in charge of the titular group of guns cast by his other nephew.
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